In reference to someone carefree and enjoying himself.
Aideis hôsper eis Dêlon pleôn: epi tou aphrontistou kai philêdountos.
Zenobius 2.37 and other paroemiographers. (For another proverb about singing see
alpha 1399.)
The tiny Aegean island of
Delos was held to be the birthplace of Apollo and Artemis, and for that and allied reasons was a major cult-centre (see
delta 408, and generally OCD(4) pp.426-7); consequently those sailing there were often singing hymns and could be assumed to be in high spirits generally.
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