Crossword-Solution: DELPHUS
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EETRA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DELPHUS (5)
This was not overlooked by Phila-delphus, who employed Hegesias to read Herodotus, and Hermophantus to read Homer, the earliest historian and the earliest poet, the two authors who had taken deepest root in the minds of the Greeks.
Thus Octavianus held Rome, with its western provinces and hardy legions, while Antony held the Greek kingdom of Ptolemy Phila-delphus.
Melantho was the daughter either of Proteus, or of Deucalion, and was the mother of Delphus, by Neptune.] [Footnote 26: _Isse._--Ver.
The Dolphin as a highly emblematic fish often stands for Neptune himself, although it probably first rose in importance from a mere punning on the words delphis a dolphin, and delphus the womb, and occasionally the pudenda.
That fish is symbolic of the female, in consequence of the assonance in Greek between its name and that of the womb, delphis and delphus.