Delphi

or Delphos (now Cas- TRI), a small town of ancient Phocis, in a valley to the W. of Mount Parna us, was the seat of the most famous of all the oracles of Apollo. From its favorable position this oracle came to be consulted, not only by the Greeks, but even by the neighboring nations, until the time of Const an tine the Great, who removed the sacred tripods to adorn the hippodrome of his new city when the responses ceased to be delivered.