A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. By various writers. Ed. by William Smith. Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.

AMULIUS.
ment for the murder of Clymenus. (Apollod. ii. 4.
~ 8, &c.) His tomb was shown at Thebes in the
time of Pausanias. (i. 41. ~ 1; compare Hoem. Od.
xi. 266, &c.; Hes. Scut. Herc. init.; Diod. iv. 9,
&c.; Hygin. Fab. 29, 244; Muller, Orchom. p.
207, &c.) Aeschylus and Sophocles wrote each a
tragedy of the name of Amphitryon, which are
now lost. We still possess a comedy of Plautus,
the " Amphitruo," the subject of which is a ludicrous representation of the visit of Zeus to Alcmene
in the disguise of her lover Amphitryon. [L. S.]
AMPHITRYONI'ADES or AMPHITRYO'NIDES ('A1PnTrpvwviodSys), a patronymic from
Amphitryon, by which Heracles is sometimes
designated, because his mother was married to
Amphitryon. (Ov. Met. ix. 140, xv. 49; Pind.
01. iii. 26, Ist/. vi. 56.) [L. S.]
A'\IPHIUS ("'AIopros), a son of Merops and
brother of Adrastus. These two brothers took
part in the Trojan war against their father's advice, and were slain by Diomedes. (Hom. II. ii.
828, &c., xi. 328, &c.)!Another hero of this
name, who was an ally of the Trojans, occurs in
II. v. 612. [L. S.]
AMPHO'TERUS ('ApofTrepos), a son of Alcmaeon by Calirrhoe, and brother of Acarnan.
[ACARINAN.] A Trojan of this name occurs Hom.
II. xvi. 415. [L. S.]
AMPHO'TERUS ('Al orepos), the brother of
Craterus, was appointed by Alexander the Great
commander of the fleet in the Hellespont, B. c. 333.
Amphoterus subdued the islands between Greece
and Asia which did not acknowledge Alexander,
cleared Crete of the Persians and pirates, and sailed to Peloponnesus B. c. 331, to put down a rising
against the Macedonian power. (Arrian, i. 25, iii.
6; Curt. iii. 1, iv. 5, 8.)
T. A'MPIUS BALBUS. [BALBUS.]
T. A'MPIUS FLAVIA'NUS. [FLAVIANUS.]
AMPY'CIDES ('ArWvscls8s), a patronymic
from Ampycus or Ampyx, applied to Mopsus. (Ov.
Met. viii. 316, 350, xii. 456, 524; Apollon. Rhod.
i. 1083; comp. Orph. Arg. 721.) [L. S.]
A'MPYCUS ("Apervicos). 1. A son of Pelias,
husband of Chloris, and father of the famous seer
Mopsus. (Hygin. Fab. 14, 128; Apollon. Rhod.
i. 1083; Ov. Met. xii. 456.) Pausanias (v. 17.
5 4, vii. 18. ~ 4) calls him Ampyx.
2. A son of Japetus, a bard and priest of Ceres,
cilled by Pettalus at the marriage of Perseus. (Ov.
liet. v. 110, &c.) Another personage of this name
)ccurs in Orph. Arg. 721. [L. S.]
AMPYX ("Auaru). 1. [AMPvYus.] 2. There
ire two other mythical personages of this name.
Ov. Met. v. 184, xii. 450.) [L. S.]
AMU'LIUS. [ROMULUS.]
AMU'LIUS, a Roman painter, who was chiefly
mnployed in decorating the Golden House of Nero.
)ne of his works was a picture of Minerva, which
Iways looked at the spectator, whatever point of
iew he chose. Pliny calls him "gravis et severus,
lemque floridus," and adds, that lie only painted
or a few hours in the day, and that with such a
egard for his own dignity, that he would not lay
side his toga, even when employed in the midst
f scaffolding and machinery. (Plin. xxxV. 37:
Toss, in an emendation of this passage, among
ther alterations, substitutes Fabullus for Asmulius.
lis reading is adopted by Junius and Sillig; but
here seems to be no sufficient ground to reject the
Id reading.) [P. S ]

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AMYCL AEUS ('AusiecAa7os), a surname of
Apollo, derived from the town of Amyclae in Laconia, where lie had a celebrated sanctuarv. Ilis
colossal statue there is estimated by Pausanias (iii.
19. ~ 2) at thirty cubits in height. It appears to
have been very ancient, for with the exception of
the head, hands, and feet, the whole resembled
more a brazen pillar than a statue. This figure of
the god wore a helmet, and in his hands he held a
spear and a bow. The women of Amyclae made
every year a new Xirwd for the god, and the place
where they made it was also called the Chiton.
(Paus. iii. 16. ~ 2.) The sanctuary of Apollo contained the throne of Amyclae, a work of Bathycles
of Magnesia, which Pausanias saw. (iii. 18. ~ 6,
&c.; comp. Welcker, Zeitschrift filr Gesch. der
alt. IfKest. i. 2, p. 280, &c.) [L. S.]
AMYCLAEUS ('AguvcAa7os), a Corinthian
sculptor, who, in conjunction with Diyllus, executed in bronze a group which the Phocians dedicated at Delphi, after their victory over the Thessalians at the beginning of the Persian war, n. c.
480. (Paus. x. 1. ~ 4, 13. ~ 4; Herod. viii. 27.)
The subject of this piece of sculpture was the contest of Heracles with Apollo for the sacred tripod.
Heracles and Apollo were represented as both
having hold of the tripod, while Leto and Artemis supported Apollo, and Heracles was encouraged
by Athene. The legend to which the group referred is related by Pausanias (x. 13. ~ 4); the
reason for such a subject being chosen by the Phocians on this occasion, seems to be their own connexion with Apollo as guardians of the Delphiic
oracle, and, on the other hand, because the Thessalian chiefs were HIeracleidae, and their war-cry
"Athene Itonia." (Miiller, Archaol. der Kunst, ~
89, an. 3.) The attempt of Heracles to carry off
the tripod seems to have been a favourite subject
with the Greek artists: two or three representations of it are still extant. (Winckelmnann, Werke,
ix. p. 256, ed. 1825; Sillig, s.v.; compare DIYLLUS,
CHIONIS.) [P. S.]
AMYCLAS ('AduhAscas), a son of Lacedaemon and Sparta, and father of Hyacinthus by
Diomede, the daughter of Lapithus. (Apollod. iii.
10. ~ 3; Paus. x. 9. ~ 3, vii. 18. ~ 4.) He was
king of Laconia, and was regarded as the founder
of the town of Amyclae. (Paus. iii. 1. ~ 3.) Two
other mythical personages of this name occur in
Parthen. Erot. 15, and Apollod. iii. 9. ~ 1. [L.S.]
AMYCLI'DES, a patronymic from Amyclas,
by which Ovid (Met. x. 162) designates Hyacinthus, who, according to some traditions, was a son
of Amyclas. [L. S.]
AMYCLUS ("ApicVKOS), or AMYCLAS ('AyidKcAXs) of Heracleia, one of Plato's disciples. (Diog.
Laert. iii. 46; Aelian, V. II. iii. 19.)
A'MYCUS ("Auvicos). 1. A son of Poseidon
by Bithynis, or by the Bithynian nymph Melia.
He was ruler of the country of the Bebryces, and
when the Argonauts landed on the coast of his
dominions, he challenged the bravest of them to a
boxing match. Polydeuces, who accepted the.
challoenge, killed him. (Apollod. i. 9. ~ 20; Hygin.
Fab. 17; Apollon. Rhod. ii. init.) The Scholiast
on Apollonius (ii. 98) relates, that Polydeuces
bound Amycus. Previous to this fatal encounter
with the Argonauts, Amycus had had a feud with
Lycus, king of Mysia, who was supported by Heracles, and in it Mydon, the brother of Amycus,
fell by the hands of Heracles. (Apollod. ii. 5. ~ 9;