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Delphic
Delphic meaning
Of or relating to Delphi or its oracles. | Obscurely prophetic.
Synonyms of Delphic
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So let the Delphic Oracles who demand the deal’s rejection, set out in clear terms, how they can achieve a better outcome or else help the DUP carry the load rather than adding to it.
The Times-Delphic was laid out with wax every issue.
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Apollo slew it but had to do penance and be cleansed afterwards, since though Python was a child of Gaia, it was necessary that the ancient Delphic Oracle passed to the protection of the new god.
As a result, the Enterprise is re-directed to the unexplored Delphic Expanse to find the Xindi and stop a further attack which will destroy Earth.
For many years Plutarch served as one of the two priests at the temple of Apollo at Delphi, the site of the famous Delphic Oracle, twenty miles from his home.
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In the earliest account that we have of the Delphic Oracle's beginnings, the story found in the Homeric Hymn to Apollo (281–374), there was no Oracle before Apollo came and killed the great she-dragon, Pytho's only inhabitant.
Oedipus eventually learns of the Delphic Oracle 's prophecy of him, that he would kill his father and marry his mother; Oedipus attempts to flee his fate without harming those he knows as his parents (at this point, he does not know that he is adopted).
The Delphic Oracle exerted considerable influence throughout the Greek world, and she was consulted before all major undertakings: wars, the founding of colonies, and so forth.
The priestess at Delphi was the "Delphic Bee".
There are also many later stories of the origins of the Delphic Oracle.
Work as magistrate and ambassador In addition to his duties as a priest of the Delphic temple, Plutarch was also a magistrate in Chaeronea and he represented his home on various missions to foreign countries during his early adult years.