Word: delphi
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Samples: To leave no stone unturned (500 B.C.). Origins of this typical ancient proverb are shrouded in the past. Perhaps it refers to Greek crab-fishermen, perhaps to a legend of the Battle of Salamis, when a greedy Theban, digging fruitlessly for Persian treasure, was thus slyly advised by Delphi's oracle. To rob Peter to pay Paul (Wyclif, 1380). Still waters run deep (1430). A hair of the dog that bit you (1546). God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb (thought by many to be a Biblical quotation, by a more knowledgeable few the invention of Laurence...
...thermometer was -2° to keep an appointment with Mrs. Roosevelt. Their object: a conference on the "Delphic Movement" and the possibility of setting up a U. S. "hostel"' near the white marble ruins that strew the hillside of Mt. Parnassus where stood the ancient oracle of Delphi...
...Delphic Festivals; at Delphi, Greece. Sponsor: Greek Government...
...Delphic Festivals; at Delphi, Greece. Sponsor: Greek Government...
Madame Eva Sikelianos, of Delphi, Greece, will give a lecture on "Greek Music" in the Large Lecture Hall of the Fogg Art Museum tomorrow at 4.30 o'clock...