Delphi

(now Castri ). An ancient town of Phocis, Greece, celebrated on account of its oracle of Apollo. Its temple was burnt by the Pisistratidæ, 548 B.C. A new temple was raised by the Alcmæonidæ. The Persians (480 B.C. ) and the Gauls (279 B.C. ) were deterred from plundering the temple by awful portents. It was, however, robbed and seized by the Phocians, 357 B.C. , which led to the Sacred War, and Nero carried from it 300 costly statues in 67 A.D.