Ambarvalia (Ambarva′lia) were festivals in honor of Ceres, instituted by Roman husbandmen to purge their fields. At the spring festival the head of each family led an animal, usually a pig or ram, decked with oak boughs, round his grounds, and offered milk and new wine. After harvest there was another festival, at which Ceres was presented with the first-fruits of the season. See Ceres.
Amber, see Heliades.
Ambrosia (Ambro′sia) were Bacchanalian festivals.
Amica (Ami′ca), a name of Venus.
Amphion (Amphi′on) was the son of Jupiter and Antiope. He was greatly skilled in music; and it is said that, at the sound of his lute, the stones arranged themselves so regularly as to make the walls of the city of Thebes.
“Amphion, too, as story goes, could call
Obedient stones to make the Theban wall.”
Horace.
“New walls to Thebes, Amphion thus began.”
William King.
“Such strains I sing as once Amphion played,
When list’ning flocks the powerful call obeyed.”
Elphinston.
Amphitrite (Amphitri′te) (or Salatia), the wife of Neptune, was a daughter of Oceanus and Tethys. She was the mother of Triton, a sea god.
“His weary chariot sought the bowers
Of Amphitrite and her tending nymphs.”
Thomson.