Delos

—When Delos was purified by the Athenians in the course of this war, and all the sepulchres of those who had died in the island were taken up, above half were found to be Carians;

Their treasury was at Delos, and their meetings were held in the temple.

Moreover, Delos had been visited by an earthquake a short time before this, though it had never had a shock before in the memory of the Greeks;

) And besides this, he purified the island of Delos as a result of oracles, and this is how he did it:

and the offerings, it is said, come by this conveyance to Delos.

They say that offerings wrapped in straw are brought from the Hyperboreans to Scythia;

Delos hates thee now, thy bay-tree loves thee not, whose branches sprout beside the tufted palm, where in holy throes Latona, big with child by Zeus, gave birth to thee.

so fly away, and settle at the Delian mere, for if thou wilt not hearken, thy blood shall choke the utterance of thy fair melody.

Did you never reflect that, whenever one chorus is selected from the citizens of this state — for instance, the chorus that is sent to Delos — no choir from any other place can compare with it, and no state can collect so goodly a company?

For he was forced to live for thirty days after the verdict was given, because it was the month of the Dêlia, and the law did not allow any public execution to take place until the sacred embassy had returned from Delos.

Hear me again, King Phoebus, Delian Apollo, who inhabitest the high-peaked Cynthian rock!

one, that to Delos (there is also a sexennial one there);

The amphictyons for Delos receive a drachma each day from Delos.

He appoints producers also for Delos, and a chief delegate for the thirty-oared ship that carries the youths.

that at Delos, while those affairs of theirs were flourishing, there were several men who used to rear very many hens for the sake of gain;

It is possible to find, openly, in city after city, local demons reaping honour:

Hyperoche and Laodice they are called, and they are buried in the Artemisium in Delos, and the spot is in the sanctuary of the Delian Apollo.

But they say that the most ancient altar in Delos was held to be pure, and that to it alone Pythagoras drew near, not defiled by slaughter and death—and will they disbelieve us when we call the just soul the truly holy altar, and the holy prayer that rises from it the incense?

you of yourselves know that Tenos had been seized by Alexander, and its people had been reduced to slavery;

"In Delos once, beside Apollo's altar, such a thing I marked—a young shoot of palm springing up.

Or to an island home, sent on a voyage of misery by oars that sweep the brine, leading a wretched existence in halls where the first-created palm and the bay-tree put forth their sacred shoots for dear Latona, a memorial of her divine birth-pains?

The maids of Delos raise their song of joy, circling round the temple gates in honor of Leto’s fair son, the graceful dancer;

Lovely is the son of Leto, whom she, the Delian, once bore in the fruitful valleys, golden-haired, skilled at the lyre;

For the mother, leaving the famous birth-place, brought him from the ridges of the sea to the heights of Parnassus, with its gushing waters, which celebrate the revels for Dionysus.

I, wingless bird that I am, compare my laments with yours, in my longing for the festivals of Hellas, and for Artemis of childbirth, who dwells beside the Cynthian mountain and the palm with delicate leaves and the well-grown laurel and the holy shoot of gray-green olive, Leto’s dear child, and the lake that rolls about its ripples, where the melodious swan serves the Muses.

I can only compare you to a young palm tree which I saw when I was at Delos growing near the altar of Apollo - for I was there, too, with many people after me, when I was on that journey which has been the source of all my troubles.

So said Delos.

Delos was very glad at the birth of the far-shooting lord.

O Lord, Lycia is yours and lovely Maeonia and Miletus, charming city by the sea, but over wave-girt Delos you greatly reign your own self.

An information had been laid by a certain party against a trading-ship, upon which I had lent a large sum of money, as belonging to a man of Delos.

Yield, island of Apollo;

May rocky Delos, in whose praises I have poured myself out, not be indignant at me.

” And when he had attained the delightful fruit of golden-crowned Youth, he went down into the middle of the Alpheus, and called on wide-ruling Poseidon, his grandfather, and on the Archer who watches over god-built Delos, praying that the honor of caring for the people be on his head, under the clear night sky.

Has the ship come from Delos, at the arrival of which I am to die?

What ship is this?

It happened that the stern of the ship which the Athenians send to Delos was crowned on the day before the trial.

Now the Athenians made a vow to Apollo, as the story goes, that if they were saved they would send a mission every year to Delos.

It changes even now its fashion locally, when a site is damaged, when among the islands there is no longer any Delos, sands made of Samos, and the Sibyl no liar;