Part 15

=Amilcar=, a Carthaginian general of great eloquence and cunning, surnamed Rhodanus. When the Athenians were afraid of Alexander, Amilcar went to his camp, gained his confidence, and secretly transmitted an account of all his schemes to Athens. _Trogus_, bk. 21, ch. 6.――――A Carthaginian, whom the Syracusans called to their assistance against the tyrant Agathocles, who besieged their city. Amilcar soon after favoured the interest of Agathocles, for which he was accused at Carthage. He died in Syracuse, B.C. 309. _Diodorus_, bk. 20.――_Justin_, bk. 22, chs. 2 & 3.――――A Carthaginian, surnamed Barcas, father to the celebrated Annibal. He was general in Sicily during the first Punic war; and after a peace had been made with the Romans, he quelled a rebellion of slaves, who had besieged Carthage, and taken many towns of Africa, and rendered themselves so formidable to the Carthaginians that they begged and obtained assistance from Rome. After this, he passed into Spain with his son Annibal, who was but nine years of age, and laid the foundation of the town of Barcelona. He was killed in a battle against the Vettones, B.C. 237. He had formed the plan of an invasion of Italy, by crossing the Alps, which his son afterwards carried into execution. His great enmity to the Romans was the cause of the second Punic war. He used to say of his three sons, that he kept three lions to devour the Roman power. _Cornelius Nepos_, _Lives of Distinguished Romans_.――_Livy_, bk. 21, ch. 1.――_Polybius_, bk. 2.――_Plutarch_, _Life of Hannibal_.――――A Carthaginian general, who assisted the Insubres against Rome, and was taken by Cnaeus Cornelius. _Livy_, bk. 32, ch. 30; bk. 33, ch. 8.――――A son of Hanno, defeated in Sicily by Gelon, the same day that Xerxes was defeated at Salamis by Themistocles. He burnt himself, that his body might not be found among the slain. Sacrifices were offered to him. _Herodotus_, bk. 7, ch. 165, &c.

=Amĭlos=, or =Amĭlus=, a river of Mauritania, where the elephants go to wash themselves by moonshine. _Pliny_, bk. 8, ch. 1.――――A town of Arcadia. _Pausanias_, _Arcadia_.

=Amimŏne=, or =Amymŏne=, a daughter of Danaus, changed into a fountain which is near Argos, and flows into the lake Lerna. _Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 2, li. 240.

=Amĭnea=, or =Amminea=, a part of Campania, where the inhabitants are great husbandmen. Its wine was highly esteemed. _Virgil_, _Georgics_, bk. 2, li. 97.――――A place of Thessaly.

=Aminias=, a famous pirate, whom Antigonus employed against Apollodorus tyrant of Cassandrea. _Polyænus_, bk. 4, ch. 18.

=Aminius=, a river of Arcadia. _Pausanias_, bk. 8, ch. 30.

=Aminŏcles=, a native of Corinth, who flourished 705 B.C., &c.

=Amisēna=, a country of Cappadocia. _Strabo_, bk. 12.

=Amisias=, a comic poet, whom Aristophanes ridiculed for his insipid verses.

=Amissas=, an officer of Megalopolis in Alexander’s army. _Curtius_, bk. 10, ch. 8.

=Amiternum=, a town of Italy, where Sallust was born. The inhabitants assisted Turnus against Æneas. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 7, li. 710.――_Pliny_, bk. 3, ch. 5.――_Livy_, bk. 28, ch. 45.

=Amithāon=, or =Amythāon=, was father to Melampus the famous prophet. _Statius_, _Thebiad_, bk. 3, li. 451.

=Ammālo=, a festival in honour of Jupiter in Greece.

=Ammiānus.= _See:_ Marcellinus.

=Ammon= and =Hammon=, a name of Jupiter, worshipped in Libya. He appeared under the form of a ram to Hercules, or, according to others, to Bacchus, who, with his army, suffered the greatest extremities for want of water, in the deserts of Africa, and showed him a fountain. Upon this Bacchus erected a temple to his father, under the name of Jupiter Ammon, _i.e._ _sandy_, with the horns of a ram. The ram, according to some, was made a constellation. The temple of Jupiter Ammon was in the deserts of Libya, nine days’ journey from Alexandria. It had a famous oracle, which, according to ancient tradition, was established about 18 centuries before the time of Augustus, by two doves which flew away from Thebais in Egypt, and came, one to Dodona, and the other to Libya, where the people were soon informed of their divine mission. The oracle of Hammon was consulted by Hercules, Perseus, and others; but when it pronounced Alexander to be the son of Jupiter, such flattery destroyed its long-established reputation, and in the age of Plutarch it was scarce known. The situation of the temple was pleasant; and according to _Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 15, li. 310,――_Lucretius_, bk. 6, li. 147,――_Herodotus_, _Melpomene_.――_Curtius_, bk. 4, ch. 7, there was near it a fountain whose waters were cold at noon and midnight, and warm in the morning and evening. There were above 100 priests in the temple, but only the elders delivered oracles. There was also an oracle of Jupiter Ammon in Æthiopia. _Pliny_, bk. 6, ch. 29.――_Strabo_, bks. 1, 11, & 17.――_Plutarch_, _de Defectu Oraculorum_, & _Iside et Osiride_.――_Curtius_, bk. 6, ch. 10; bk. 10, ch. 5.――_Herodotus_, bk. 1, ch. 6; bk. 2, chs. 32 & 55; bk. 4, ch. 44.――_Pausanias_, bk. 3, ch. 18; bk. 4, ch. 23.――_Hyginus_, fable 133; _Poeticon Astronomicon_, bk. 2, ch. 20.――_Justin_, bk. 1, ch. 9; bk. 11, ch. 11.――――A king of Libya, father to Bacchus. He gave his name to the temple of Hammon, according to _Diodorus_, bk. 8.

=Ammon= and =Brothas=, two brothers famous for their skill in boxing. _Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 5, li. 107.

=Ammōnia=, a name of Juno in Elis, as being the wife of Jupiter Ammon. _Pausanias_, bk. 5, ch. 15.

=Ammōnii=, a nation of Africa, who derived their origin from the Egyptians and Æthiopians. Their language was a mixture of that of the two people from whom they were descended. _Herodotus_, bks. 2, 3, & 4.

=Ammōnius=, a christian philosopher, who opened a school of Platonic philosophy at Alexandria, 232 A.D., and had amongst his pupils Origen and Plotinus. His treatise, Περι Ὁμοιων, was published in 4to by Valckenaer, Leiden, 1739.――――A writer who gave an account of sacrifices, as also a treatise on the harlots of Athens. _Athenæus_, bk. 13.――――An Athenian general surnamed Barcas. _Polybius_, bk. 3.

=Ammothea=, one of the Nereides. _Hesiod_, _Theogony_.

=Amnias=, a river of Bithynia. _Appian_, _Mithridatic Wars_.

=Amnīsus=, a port of Gnossus, at the north of Crete, with a small river of the same name, near which Lucina had a temple. The nymphs of the place were called Amnisiades. _Callimachus._

=Amœbæus=, an Athenian player of great reputation, who sung at the nuptials of Demetrius and Nicæa. _Polyænus_, bk. 4, ch. 6.

=Amomētus=, a Greek historian. _Pliny_, bk. 6, ch. 17.

=Amor=, the son of Venus, was the god of love. _See:_ Cupido.

=Amorges=, a Persian general, killed in Caria, in the reign of Xerxes. _Herodotus_, bk. 5, ch. 121.

=Amorgos=, an island among the Cyclades, where Simonides was born. _Strabo_, bk. 10.

=Ampĕlus=, a promontory of Samos.――――A town of Crete,――――of Macedonia,――――of Liguria,――――and Cyrene.――――A favourite of Bacchus, son of a satyr and a nymph, made a constellation after death. _Ovid_, _Fasti_, bk. 3, li. 407.

=Ampelūsia=, a promontory of Africa, in Mauritania. _Mela_, bk. 1, chs. 5 & 6.

=Amphēa=, a city of Messenia, taken by the Lacedæmonians. _Pausanias_, bk. 4, ch. 5.

=Amphialāus=, a famous dancer in the island of the Phæacians. _Homer_, _Odyssey_, bk. 8.

=Amphiănax=, a king of Lycia in the time of Acrisius and Prœtus. _Apollodorus_, bk. 2, ch. 2.

=Amphiarāus=, son of Oicleus, or, according to others, of Apollo by Hypermnestra, was at the chase of the Calydonian boar, and accompanied the Argonauts in their expedition. He was famous for his knowledge of futurity and thence he is called by some son of Apollo. He married Eriphyle, the sister of Adrastus king of Argos, by whom he had two sons, Alcmæon and Amphilochus. When Adrastus, at the request of Polynices, declared war against Thebes, Amphiaraus secreted himself, not to accompany his brother-in-law in an expedition in which he knew he was to perish. But Eriphyle, who knew where he had concealed himself, was prevailed upon to betray him by Polynices, who gave her as a reward for her perfidy a famous golden necklace set with diamonds. Amphiaraus being thus discovered, went to the war, but previously charged his son Alcmæon to put to death his mother Eriphyle, as soon as he was informed that he was killed. The Theban war was fatal to the Argives, and Amphiaraus was swallowed up in his chariot by the earth, as he attempted to retire from the battle. The news of his death was brought to Alcmæon, who immediately executed his father’s command, and murdered Eriphyle. Amphiaraus received divine honours after death, and had a celebrated temple and oracle at Oropos in Attica. His statue was made of white marble, and near his temple was a fountain, whose waters were ever held sacred. They only who had consulted his oracle, or had been delivered from a disease, were permitted to bathe in it, after which they threw pieces of gold and silver into the stream. Those who consulted the oracle of Amphiaraus first purified themselves, and abstained from food for 24 hours, and three days from wine, after which they sacrificed a ram to the prophet, and spread the skin upon the ground, upon which they slept in expectation of receiving in a dream the answer of the oracle. Plutarch, _De Defectu Oraculorum_, mentions that the oracle of Amphiaraus was once consulted in the time of Xerxes, by one of the servants of Mardonius, for his master, who was then with an army in Greece; and that the servant, when asleep, saw in a dream the priest of the temple, who upbraided him and drove him away, and even threw stones at his head when he refused to comply. This oracle was verified in the death of Mardonius, who was actually killed by the blow of a stone which he received on the head. _Cicero_, _de Divinatione_, bk. 1, ch. 40. ――_Philostratus_, _Lives_.――_Apollonius_, bk. 2, ch. 11.――_Homer_, _Odyssey_, bk. 15, li. 243, &c.――_Hyginus_, fables 70, 73, 128, & 150.――_Diodorus_, bk. 4.――_Ovid_, bk. 9, fable 10.――_Pausanias_, bk. 1, ch. 34; bk. 2, ch. 37; bk. 9, chs. 8 & 19.――_Aeschylus_, _Seven Against Thebes_.――_Apollodorus_, bk. 1, chs. 8 & 9; bk. 3, ch. 6, &c.――_Strabo_, bk. 8.

=Amphiarāĭdes=, a patronymic of Alcmæon as being son of Amphiaraus. _Ovid_, _Fasti_, bk. 2, li. 43.

=Amphicrătes=, an historian who wrote the lives of illustrious men. _Diogenes Laërtius._

=Amphictyon=, son of Deucalion and Pyrrha, reigned at Athens after Cranaus, and first attempted to give the interpretation of dreams, and to draw omens. Some say that the deluge happened in his age. _Justin_, bk. 2, ch. 6.――――The son of Helenus, who first established the celebrated council of the _Amphictyons_, composed of the wisest and most virtuous men of some cities of Greece. This august assembly consisted of 12 persons, originally sent by the following states: the Ionians, Dorians, Perhæbians, Bœotians, Magnesians, Phthians, Locrians, Malians, Phocians, Thessalians, Dolopes, and the people of Œta. Other cities in process of time sent also some of their citizens to the council of the Amphictyons, and in the age of Antoninus Pius, they were increased to the number of 30. They generally met twice every year at Delphi, and sometimes sat at Thermopylæ. They took into consideration all matters of difference which might exist between the different states of Greece. When the Phocians plundered the temple of Delphi the Amphictyons declared war against them, and this war was supported by all the states of Greece, and lasted 10 years. The Phocians, with their allies the Lacedæmonians, were deprived of the privilege of sitting in the council of the Amphictyons, and the Macedonians were admitted in their place, for their services in support of the war. About 60 years after, when Brennus, with the Gauls, invaded Greece, the Phocians behaved with such courage, that they were reinstated in all their former privileges. Before they proceeded to business, the Amphictyons sacrificed an ox to the god of Delphi, and cut his flesh into small pieces, intimating that union and unanimity prevailed in the several cities which they represented. Their decisions were held sacred and inviolable, and even arms were taken up to enforce them. _Pausanias_, _Phocis_ & _Achaia_.――_Strabo_, bk. 8.――_Suidas._ ――_Hesychius._――_Aeschines._

=Amphiclea=, a town of Phocis, where Bacchus had a temple.

=Amphidāmus=, a son of Aleus, brother to Lycurgus. He was of the family of the Inachidæ. _Pausanias_, bk. 8, ch. 4.――――One of the Argonauts. _Flaccus_, bk. 1, li. 376.――――A son of Busiris, killed by Hercules. _Apollodorus_, bk. 2, ch. 5.

=Amphidrŏmia=, a festival observed by private families at Athens, the fifth day after the birth of every child. It was customary to _run round_ the fire with a child in their arms; whence the name of the festivals.

=Amphigenīa=, a town of Messenia in Peloponnesus. _Statius_, _Thebiad_, bk. 4, li. 178.

=Amphilŏchus=, a son of Amphiaraus and Eriphyle. After the Trojan war, he left Argos, his native country, and built Amphilochus, a town of Epirus. _Strabo_, bk. 7.――_Pausanias_, bk. 2, ch. 18.――――An Athenian philosopher who wrote upon agriculture. _Varro_, _de Re Rustica_, bk. 1.

=Amphily̆tus=, a soothsayer of Acarnania, who encouraged Pisistratus to seize the sovereign power of Athens. _Herodotus_, bk. 1, ch. 62.

=Amphimăche=, a daughter of Amphidamus, wife of Eurystheus. _Apollodorus_, bk. 2.

=Amphimăchus=, one of Helen’s suitors, son of Cteatus. He went to the Trojan war. _Apollodorus_, bk. 3, ch. 10.――_Hyginus_, fable 97.――――A son of Actor and Theronice. _Pausanias_, bk. 5, ch. 3.

=Amphimĕdon=, a Libyan killed by Perseus, in the court of Cepheus. _Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 5, li. 75.――――One of Penelope’s suitors, killed by Telemachus. _Homer_, _Odyssey_, bk. 22, li. 283.

=Amphinŏme=, the name of one of the attendants of Thetis. _Homer_, _Iliad_, bk. 18, li. 44.

=Amphinŏmus=, one of Penelope’s suitors, killed by Telemachus. _Homer_, _Odyssey_, bks. 16 & 22.

=Amphinŏmus= and =Anapius=, two brothers, who, when Catana and the neighbouring cities were in flames, by an eruption from mount Ætna, saved their parents upon their shoulders. The fire, as it is said, spared them while it consumed others by their side; and Pluto, to reward their uncommon piety, placed them after death in the island of Leuce, and they received divine honours in Sicily. _Valerius Maximus_, bk. 5, ch. 4.――_Strabo_, bk. 6.――_Silius Italicus_, bk. 14, li. 197.――_Seneca_, _de Beneficiis_.

=Amphīon=, was son of Jupiter, by Antiope daughter of Nycteus, who had married Lycus, and had been repudiated by him when he married Dirce. Amphion was born at the same birth as Zethus, on mount Citheron, where Antiope had fled to avoid the resentment of Dirce; and the two children were exposed in the woods, but preserved by a shepherd. _See:_ Antiope. When Amphion grew up, he cultivated poetry and made such an uncommon progress in music, that he is said to have been the inventor of it, and to have built the walls of Thebes at the sound of his lyre. Mercury taught him music, and gave him the lyre. He was the first who raised an altar to this god. Zethus and Amphion united to avenge the wrongs which their mother had suffered from the cruelties of Dirce. They besieged and took Thebes, put Lycus to death, and tied his wife to the tail of a wild bull, which dragged her through precipices till she expired. The fable of Amphion’s moving stones and raising the walls of Thebes at the sound of his lyre, has been explained by supposing that he persuaded, by his eloquence, a wild and uncivilized people to unite together and build a town to protect themselves against the attacks of their enemies. _Homer_, _Odyssey_, bk. 11.――_Apollodorus_, bk. 3, chs. 5 & 10.――_Pausanias_, bk. 6, ch. 6; bk. 6, ch. 20; bk. 9, chs. 5 & 17.――_Propertius_, bk. 3, poem 15.――_Ovid_, _de Ars Amatoria_, bk. 3, li. 323.――_Horace_, bk. 3, ode 11; _Art of Poetry_, li. 394.――_Statius_, _Thebiad_, bk. 1, li. 10.――――A son of Jasus king of Orchomenos, by Persephone daughter of Mius. He married Niobe daughter of Tantalus, by whom he had many children, among whom was Chloris the wife of Neleus. He has been confounded by mythologists with the son of Antiope, though Homer in his Odyssey speaks of them both, and distinguishes them beyond contradiction. The number of Amphion’s children, according to Homer, was 12, six of each sex; according to Ælian, 20; and according to Ovid, 14, seven males and seven females. When Niobe boasted herself greater, and more deserving of immortality than Latona, all her children, except Chloris, were destroyed by the arrows of Apollo and Diana; Niobe herself was changed into a stone, and Amphion killed himself in a fit of despair. _Homer_, _Odyssey_, bk. 11, lis. 261 & 282.――_Ælian_, _Varia Historia_, bk. 12, li. 36.――_Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 6, fable 5.――――One of the Argonauts. _Hyginus_, fable 14.――――A famous painter and statuary, son of Acestor of Gnossus. _Pliny_, bk. 36, ch. 10.――――One of the Greek generals in the Trojan war. _Homer_, _Iliad_, bk. 13, li. 692.

=Amphipŏles=, magistrates appointed at Syracuse by Timoleon, after the expulsion of Dionysius the younger. The office existed for above 300 years. _Diodorus_, bk. 16.

=Amphipŏlis=, a town on the Strymon, between Macedonia and Thrace. An Athenian colony, under Agnon son of Nicias, drove the ancient inhabitants, called Edonians, from the country, and built a city, which they called Amphipolis, _i.e._ a town surrounded on all sides, because the Strymon flowed all around it. It has been also called Acra, Strymon, Myrica, Eion, and the town of Mars. It was the cause of many wars between the Athenians and Spartans. _Thucydides_, bk. 4, ch. 102, &c.――_Herodotus_, bk. 5, ch. 126; bk. 7, ch. 114.―― _Diodorus_, bks. 11, 12, &c.――_Cornelius Nepos_, _Cimon_.

=Amphipy̆ros=, a surname of Diana, because she carries a _torch_ in _both_ her hands. _Sophocles_, _Trachiniæ_.

=Amphirētus=, a man of Acanthus, who artfully escaped from pirates who had made him prisoner. _Polyænus_, bk. 6.

=Amphiroe=, one of the Oceanides. _Hesiod_, _Theogony_, li. 361.

=Amphis=, a Greek comic poet of Athens, son of Amphicrates, contemporary with Plato. Besides his comedies he wrote other pieces, which are now lost. _Suidas._――_Diogenes Laërtius._

=Amphisbæna=, a two-headed serpent in the deserts of Libya, whose bite was venomous and deadly. _Lucan_, bk. 9, li. 719.

=Amphissa=, or =Issa=, a daughter of Macareus, beloved by Apollo. She gave her name to a city of Locris near Phocis, in which was a temple of Minerva. _Livy_, bk. 37, ch. 5.――_Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 15, li. 703.――_Lucan_, bk. 3, li. 172.――――A town of the Brutii on the east coast.

=Amphissēne=, a country of Armenia.

=Amphissus=, a son of Dryope. _Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 9, fable 10.

=Amphisthĕnes=, a Lacedæmonian, who fell delirious in sacrificing to Diana. _Pausanias_, bk. 3, ch. 16.

=Amphistīdes=, a man so naturally destitute of intellect, that he seldom remembered that he ever had a father. He wished to learn arithmetic, but never could comprehend beyond the figure 4. _Aristotle_, _Problemata_, bk. 4.

=Amphistrătus= and =Rhecas=, two men of Laconia, charioteers to Castor and Pollux. _Strabo_, bk. 11.――_Justin_, bk. 42, ch. 3.

=Amphitea=, the mother of Ægialeus by Cyanippus, and of three daughters, Argia, Deipyle, and Ægialea, by Adrastus king of Argos. She was daughter to Pronax. _Apollodorus_, bk. 1.――――The wife of Autolycus, by whom she had Anticlea the wife of Laertes. _Homer_, _Odyssey_, bk. 19, li. 416.

=Amphitheātrum=, a large round or oval building at Rome, where the people assembled to see the combats of gladiators, of wild beasts, and other exhibitions. The amphitheatres of Rome were generally built with wood. Statilius Taurus was the first who made one with stones, under Augustus.

=Amphithĕmis=, a Theban general, who involved the Lacedæmonians into a war with his country. _Plutarch_, _Lysander_.――_Pausanias_, bk. 3, ch. 9.

=Amphithoe=, one of the Nereides.

=Amphītrīte=, daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, married Neptune, though she had made a vow of perpetual celibacy. She had by him Triton, one of the sea deities. She had a statue at Corinth in the temple of Neptune. She is sometimes called Salatia, and is often taken for the sea itself. _Varro_, _de Lingua Latina_, bk. 4.――_Hesiod_, _Theogony_, li. 930.――_Apollodorus_, bk. 3.――_Claudian_, _de Raptu Proserpinæ_, bk. 1, li. 104.――_Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 1, li. 14.――――One of the Nereides.

=Amphĭtryon=, a Theban prince, son of Alcæus and Hipponome. His sister Anaxo had married Electryon king of Mycenæ, whose sons were killed in a battle by the Teleboans. Electryon promised his crown and daughter Alcmena to him who could revenge the death of his sons upon the Teleboans; and Amphitryon offered himself and was received, on condition that he should not approach Alcmena before he had obtained a victory. Jupiter, who was captivated with the charms of Alcmena, borrowed the features of Amphitryon when he was gone to the war, and introduced himself to Electryon’s daughter as her husband returned victorious. Alcmena became pregnant of Hercules by Jupiter, and of Iphiclus by Amphitryon, after his return. _See:_ Alcmena. When Amphitryon returned from the war, he brought back to Electryon the herds which the Teleboans had taken from him. One of the cows having strayed from the rest, Amphitryon, to bring them together, threw a stick, which struck the horns of the cow, and rebounded with such violence upon Electryon, that he died on the spot. After this accidental murder, Sthenelus, Electryon’s brother, seized the kingdom of Mycenæ, and obliged Amphitryon to leave Argolis, and retire to Thebes with Alcmena. Creon king of Thebes purified him of the murder. _Apollodorus_, bk. 2, ch. 4.――_Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 8, li. 213.――_Propertius_, bk. 4, poem 10, li. 1.――_Hesiod_, _Shield of Heracles_.――_Hyginus_, fable 29.――_Pausanias_, bk. 8, ch. 14.

=Amphitryōniădes=, a surname of Hercules, as the supposed son of Amphitryon. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 8, li. 103.

=Amphitus=, a priest of Ceres, at the court of Cepheus. _Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 5, fable 5.

=Amphotĕrus=, was appointed commander of a fleet in the Hellespont by Alexander. _Curtius_, bk. 3, ch. 1.――――A son of Alcmæon.

=Amphrȳsus=, a river of Thessaly, near which Apollo, when banished from heaven, fed the flocks of king Admetus. From this circumstance the god has been called _Amphryssius_, and his priestess _Amphryssia_. _Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 1, li. 580.――_Lucan_, bk. 6, li. 367.――_Virgil_, _Georgics_, bk. 3, li. 2; _Æneid_, bk. 6, li. 398.――――A river of Phrygia, whose waters rendered women liable to barrenness. _Pliny_, bk. 32, ch. 2.

=Ampia Labiena lex=, was enacted by Titus Ampius and ♦Titus Labienus, tribunes of the people, A.U.C. 693. It gave Pompey the Great the privilege of appearing in triumphal robes and with a golden crown at the Circensian games, and with a prætexta and golden crown at theatrical plays.

♦ ‘A.’ replaced with ‘Titus’

=Ampracia=. _See:_ Ambracia.

=Ampysĭdes=, a patronymic of Mopsus son of Ampyx. _Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 8, li. 316.

=Ampyx=, a son of Pelias. _Pausanias_, bk. 7, ch. 18.――――A man mentioned by _Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 5, li. 184.――――The father of Mopsus. _Orpheus_, _Argonauts_.――_Pausanias_, bk. 5, ch. 17.

=Amsactus=, a lake in the country of the Hirpini, at the east of Capua, whose waters are so sulphureous that they infect and destroy whatever animals come near the place. It was through this place that Virgil made the fury Alecto descend into hell, after her visit to the upper regions. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 7, li. 565.――_Cicero_, _de Divinatione_, bk. 1, ch. 36.