Delium

[ dee-lee-uhm ]

noun

1. an ancient seaport in Greece, in Boeotia: the Boeotians defeated the Athenians here 424 b.c.

Example Sentences

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From BBC

But Plato not being content with all these strange stories, introduces the valour which was displayed, or rather which was invented by him at Delium.

From Project Gutenberg

For then some of the Athenians fled to Delium, and some fled to the sea, and some to Oropus, and some to Mount Parnes.

From Project Gutenberg

For if Socrates had even taken Delium, as Herodicus the Cratetian has reported in his Treatise to Philosocrates, he would have fled disgracefully as all the rest did, when Pagondas sent two squadrons of cavalry unperceived round the hill.

From Project Gutenberg

But by the universal consent of all historians the expedition against Potidæa, in which Phormio commanded, was previous to the one against Delium.

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