Delia, any female sweetheart. She is one of the shepherdesses in Virgil's Eclogues. Tibullus, the Roman poet, calls his lady-love "Delia," but what her real name was is not certain.
Delia, the lady-love of James Hammond's elegies, was Miss Dashwood, who died in 1779. She rejected his suit, and died unmarried. In one of the elegies the poet imagines himself married to her, and that they were living happily together till death, when pitying maids would tell of their wondrous loves.
Delian King (The). Apollo or the sun is so called in the Orphic hymn,
Oft as the Delian king with Sirius holds
The central heavens.
Akenside, Hymn to the Naiads (1767).
Delight of Mankind (The), Titus the Roman emperor, A.D.40, (79-81).
Titus indeed gave one short evening gleam,
More cordial felt, as in the midst it spread
Of storm and horror: "The Delight of Men."