(Greek mythology) the oracle at Delphi where a priestess supposedly delivered messages from Apollo to those who sought advice; the messages were usually obscure or ambiguous.
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1 Months ago, Divak's brother attempted to destroy the Megaran Temple of Apollo .
2 As you know, in the Temple of Apollo there is a wise oracle.
3 A guard was found unconscious at his post at the Temple of Apollo .
4 THE Temple of Apollo stood complete, pure white marble gleaming in the sun.
5 By the evening, she found the home of Asclepius, near unto the Temple of Apollo .
1 Then, amid the general excitement, Themistocles reiterated his version of the Delphic oracle .
2 She is now Delphic oracle of doodle-bugs and hierophant of the hot stuff.
3 Their voluminous writings have all the clarity and directness of a Delphic oracle .
4 The Delphic oracle declared that no one in the world was wiser than Socrates.
5 Why has the Delphic oracle been called "the common hearth of Hellas"?
1 Thus both the Amphictyonic Council and the oracle of Delphi were in their power.
2 The Beotians had suffered from drought for two years and sent to consult the oracle of Delphi .
3 Consulting the oracle of Delphi concerning his new government, he is said to have received the following answer:
4 Hence it was chiefly to a political cause that the immortal oracle of Delphi owed its pre-eminent importance.
5 When the city of Athens was once in danger of being attacked and destroyed, the oracle of Delphi was consulted.
1 Another letter treats of the Answers of the Oracle of Apollo , at Delphos, to Croesus, king of Lydia.
2 There he was acquitted; but not all the Furies left him, and at last he besought the Oracle of Apollo to befriend him.
3 The oracle of Apollo at Delphi in Phocis enjoyed the utmost veneration.
4 And then the woman began to chatter something about an oracle of Apollo .
5 Now, my child, is the oracle of Apollo come to pass.
6 I also saw the famous Kastalian Spring which was once an oracle of Apollo .
7 Here the oracle of Apollo gave answers to those who came to consult that divinity.
8 Desiring to consult the oracle of Apollo concerning his campaign, he now proceeded to Delphi.
9 The most celebrated oracle of Apollo was at Delphi.]
10 There was an oracle of Apollo , he urged, which said "Beware of the lame reign."
11 He thought best therefore to make a voyage to Claros in Ionia, to consult the oracle of Apollo .
12 He thought best, therefore, to make a voyage to Carlos in Ionia, to consult the oracle of Apollo .
13 Delphi, the seat and oracle of Apollo , had a mountainous and rocky situation, on the skirts of Parnassus.
14 Castalian Cave, oracle of Apollo .
15 The oracle of Apollo at Delphi is the most remarkable; and respecting it we are furnished with the greatest body of particulars.
16 There were twenty-two oracles of Apollo in different parts of the Grecian world, but a much smaller number of those of Zeus.
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