Dictionary of Battles / From the Earliest Date to the Present Time

by Thomas Benfield Harbottle

Delphi (Sacred War).

Fought B.C. 355, between the Phocians, 5,000 strong, under Philomelus, and the Locrians. Philomelus, who had seized Delphi, attacked the Locrians on the heights above the sacred city, and routed them with heavy loss, many being driven over the precipice.