Crossword-Solution: DELIAN
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| DELIAN | anagram | ALDINE, ALINED, ANIDLE, DANIEL, DEALIN, DELAIN, DENALI, DENIAL, ENALID, INALED, LEADIN, NAILED, NEILAD |
We have 3 clues for the answer “DELIAN”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Native of Aegean island. | 1 answer |
| Of Apollo's island | 1 answer |
| ___ god (Apollo). | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EEART
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DELIAN (5)
Thucydides quotes the Delian _Hymn to Apollo_, and it is possible that the Homeric corpus of his day also contained other of the more important hymns.
The _Hymn to Apollo_ consists of two parts, which beyond any doubt were originally distinct, a Delian hymn and a Pythian hymn.
The Delian hymn describes how Leto, in travail with Apollo, sought out a place in which to bear her son, and how Apollo, born in Delos, at once claimed for himself the lyre, the bow, and prophecy.
This part of the existing hymn ends with an encomium of the Delian festival of Apollo and of the Delian choirs.
The Delian part is exclusively Ionian and insular both in style and sympathy; Delos and no other is Apollo’s chosen seat: but the second part is as definitely continental; Delos is ignored and Delphi alone is the important centre of Apollo’s worship.
Quotes with DELIAN (1)
My cough is much worse at night and often prevents me from sleeping. It is not so much the daytime tiredness that I resent, but the inability to proceed uninter- rupted with my dreams, to run and play with my fancies, and, at last, in the early hours of the morning, to be visited with visions like a holy madman. The dreamer is like a Delian diver, fishing for pearls from the depths of our inner sea of knowledge; and I must have solved, or rather resolved, many more problems i…
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1959–1970).