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Charila

ἡ χαρίλα

Charila (ἡ χαρίλα), one of the three festivals celebrated at Delphi every ninth year, as a thanksgiving for having been delivered at one time from a famine. (Plut. Quaest. Gr. 55.)

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.