- mythology,
Delphus (/ˈdɛlfəs/;
Ancient Gr****: Δέλφος, Delphos) was the
person from whom the town of
Delphi was
believed to have
derived its name.
Delphus was...
-
Delphus Kill is a
river that
flows into the
Mohawk River in
Dunsbach Ferry, New York. "
Delphus Kill".
Geographic Names Information System.
United States...
-
Delphus E.
Carpenter (1877–1951) was the
Commissioner of
Interstate Streams for the
State of
Colorado at a time when
Western States'
water rights were...
- was
seduced by
Poseidon the
shape of a
dolphin and by him, bore a son
Delphus. In one account,
Melantheia instead married King
Hyamus of Hyampolis, son...
- to make them his priests.
While Delphi is
actually related to the word
delphus ("womb"), many
etiological myths are
similarly based on folk etymology...
-
daughter of Apollo, his
first priestess at Delphi, or of his
possible son
Delphus, and the
inventor of the
hexameter verses, a type of
poetic metre. In some...
- New Pauly, s.v. Terpsic****; Suda λ 568. Pausanias, 10.6.3. Grimal, s.v.
Delphus, p. 131; Pausanias, 10.6.4. Pausanias, 10.6.4. Brill's New Jacoby, s.v...
- the city of
Daulis and
Melaeno mother of
Delphus by Apollo,
though he also
gives two
other accounts of
Delphus' mother. However, one of
these alternate...
-
daughter of Deucalion.
Celaeno or her
sister Melanis became the
mother of
Delphus by Apollo. Celaeno,
daughter of
Ergea by Poseidon. She was the
mother of...
- /ˈdɛlfiː/. The
bottom line on the
etymology is that
Delphoi is
related to
delphus, "womb",
which is
consistent with the
omphalos stone there being considered...
