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

AMBUSTUS.
tius (v. 11) quotes an epigram of Theocritus against
Aristotle.
AMBRYSSUS (AuCppo'oos), the mythical
founder of the town of Ambryssus or Amphryssus
in Phocis. (Paus. x. 36. ~ 2.) [L. S.]
AMBU'LIA, AMBU'LII, and AMBU'LIUS
('ApouvXa, 'AouAihor, and 'AsXo;heos), surnames
under which the Spartans worshipped Athena, the
Dioscuri, and Zeus. (Paus. iii. 13. ~ 4.) The
meaning of the name is uncertain, but it has been
supposed to be derived from dvaegda'w, and to designate those divinities as the delayers of death.
[L. S,]
AMBUSTUS, the name of a family of the
patrician FABIA GENS. The first member of the
Fabia gens, who acquired this cognomen, was Q.
Fabius Vibulanus, consul in B. c. 412, who appears
to have been a son of N. Fabius Vibulanus, consul
in n. c. 421. From this time the name Vibulanus
was dropt, and that of Ambustus took its place.
The latter was in its turn supplanted by that of
Maximus, which was first acquired by Q. Fabius,
son of No. 7 [see below], and was handed down
by him to his descendants.
1. Q. FABIUS M. F. Q. N. VIBULANUS ANIBUSTUS, consul in B.c. 412. (Liv. iv. 52.)
2. M. FABIUs AIBUSTUS, Pontifex Maximus
in the year that Rome was taken by the Gauls,
B. c. 390. His three sons [see Nos. 3, 4, and
5] were sent as ambassadors to the Gauls, when
the latter were besieging Clusium, and took part
in a sally of the besieged against the Gauls. The
Dauls demanded that the Fabii should be sur-:endered to them for violating the law of nations;
mnd upon the senate refusing to give up the guilty
parties, they marched against Rome. The three
ions were in the same year elected consular tri)unes. (Liv. v. 35, 36, 41; Plut. Cam. 17.)
3. K. FABIUS M. F. Q. N. AMBUSTUS, son of
4o. 2 and brother to Nos. 4 and 5, was quaestor
n B. c. 409, with three plebeians as his colleagues,
vhich was the first time that quaestors were:hosen from the plebs. (Liv. iv. 54.) He was:onsular tribune for the first time in 404 (iv. 61),
gain in 401 (v. 10), a third time in 395 (v. 24),,nd a fourth time in 390. [See No. 2.)
4. N. FABIUS M. F. Q. N. AMBUSTUS, son of
qo. 2 and brother to Nos. 3 and 5, consular triune in B. c. 406 (Liv. iv. 58), and again in 390.
See No. 2.]
5. Q. FABIUS M. F. Q. N. AMIBUSTUS, son of
4o. 2 and brother to Nos. 3 and 4, consular triune in B. c. 390. [See No. 2.]
6. M. FABIUS K. F. M. N. AMBUSTUS, son, as
Sappears, of No. 3, was consular tribune in B. c.
81. (Liv. vi. 22.) He had two daughters, of
drom the elder was married to Ser. Sulpicius, and
ie younger to C. Licinius Stolo, the author of the
licinian Rogations. According to the story re)rded by Livy, the younger Fabia induced her
ither to assist her husband in obtaining the conflship for the plebeian order, into which she had!arried. (vi. 34.) Ambustus was consular tribune
second time in 369, and took an active part in
ipport of the Licinian Rogations. (vi. 36.) fie
as censor in 363. (Fast. Capitol.)
7. M. FABIUS N. F. M. N. AnABUSTUS, son, as
appears, of No. 4, was consul in B. c. 360, and
rried on the war against the Hernici, whom he
nquered, and obtained an ovation in consequence.
Aiv. vii. 11; Fast. Triumpk.) He was consul a

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second time in 356, and carried on the war against
the Falisci and Tarquinienses, whom he also conquered. As he was absent from Rome when the
time came for holding the comitia, the senate, which
did not like to entrust them to his colleague,
who had appointed a plebeian dictator, and still
less to the dictator himself, nominated interreges
for the purpose. The object of the patricians was
to secure both places in the consulship for their
own order again, which was effected by Ambustus,
who seems to have returned to Rome meantime.
He was appointed the eleventh interrex, and declared two patricians consuls in violation of the
Licinian law. (Liv. vii. 17.) He was consul a
third time in 354, when he conquered the Tiburtes
and obtained a triumph in consequence. (vii. 18,
19; Fast. Triumph.) In 351 he was appointed
dictator merely to frustrate the Licinian law again
at the comitia, but did not succeed in his object.
(Liv. vii. 22.) He was alive in 325, when his
son, Q. Fabius Maximus Rullianus, was master of
the horse to Papirius, and fled to Rome to implore
protection from the vengeance of the dictator. He
interceded on his son's behalf both with the senate
and the people. (viii. 33.)
8. C. FABIUS (C. F. M. N.) AMBUSTUS, consul
in B. c. 358, in which year a dictator was appointed through fear of the Gauls. (Liv. vii. 12.)
9. M. FABIus M. F. N. N. AMBUSTUS, son apparently of No. 7, and brother to the great Q.
Fabius Maximus Rullianus, was master of the
horse in B. c. 322. (Liv. viii. 38.)
10. Q. FABIus (Q. F. Q. N.) AMBUSTUS, dictator in B. c. 321, but immediately resigned
through some fault in the election. (Liv. ix. 7.)
11. C. FABIvs M. F. N. N. AMBUSTUS, son apparently of No. 7, and brother to No. 9, was
appointed master of the horse in B. c. 315 in place
of Q. Aulins, who fell in battle. (Liv. ix. 23.)
AMEINIAS. [NARcIssus.]
AMEI'NIAS ('AgEtvias), a younger brother of
Aeschylus, of the Attic demos of Pallene according to Herodotus (viii. 84, 93), or of that of
Decelea according to Plutarch (Them. 14), distinguished himself at the battle of Salamis (B. c. 480)
by making the first attack upon the Persian ships,
and also by his pursuit of Artemisia. Hie and
Eumenes were judged to have been the bravest on
this occasion among all the Athenians. (Herod.
Plut. 1I. cc.; Diod. xi. 27.) Aelian mentions
(V. II. v. 19), that Ameinias prevented the condemnation of his brother Aeschylus by the Areiopagus. [AESCHYLUS, p. 41, a.]
AMEINOCLES ('Ajetvoichjs), a Corinthian
shipbuilder, who visited Samos about B. c. 704,
and built four ships for the Samians. (Thuc. i. 13.)
Pliny (H1. N. vii. 56) says, that Thucydides mentioned Ameinocles as the inventor of the trireme;
but this is a mistake, for Thucydides merely states
that triremes were first built at Corinth in Greece,
without ascribing their invention to Ameinocles.
According to Syncellus (p. 212, c), triremes were
first built at Athens by Ameinocles.
AMEI'PSIAS ('Aeý'lpias), a comic poet of
Athens, contemporary with Aristophanes, whom he
twice conquered in the dramatic contests, gaining
the second prize with his Kdovos when Aristophanes was third with the " Clouds" (423 B. c.),
and the first with his Kwpaao-ral, when Aristophanes gained the second with the " Birds." (414
B. C.; Argum. in Aristoph. Nub. et Av.) The