Delos

name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    plural of delo form-of, plural
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    An island of the Cyclades, Greece.

    "We may also conclude that as it was the Ionic γένη of the Attic tetrapolis who in the main achieved the Ionization of Athens, so it was a branch of this same stock that settled at Delos […]"

  2. 2
    plural of Delo form-of, plural

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"We may also conclude that as it was the Ionic γένη of the Attic tetrapolis who in the main achieved the Ionization of Athens, so it was a branch of this same stock that settled at Delos […]"

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Δῆλος (Dêlos).

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