In Greece, the oracles of the delphian priestess, and the predictions of soothsayers, collected in books or circulating orally among the people, were expressed in hexameter verse and in the traditional diction of epic poetry; but they were never ranked under any form of poetic art.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
Recollect, your delphian utterances have gravely astonished and disquieted me.
"Hilda Wade A Woman With Tenacity Of Purpose"
Grant Allen
Do you know, sire, I have a feeling of oppression and exaltation combined, such as the Grecians may have felt when they entered the delphian valley?
"Berlin and Sans-Souci"
Louise Muhlbach