Amardi, a nation near the Caspian sea. Mela, bk. 1, ch. 3.
Amartus, a city of Greece. Homer, Hymn to Apollo.
Amaryllis, the name of a countrywoman in Virgil’s eclogues. Some commentators have supposed that the poet spoke of Rome under this fictitious appellation.
Amarynceus, a king of the Epeans, buried at Buprasium. Strabo, bk. 8.—Pausanias, bk. 8, ch. 1.
Amarynthus, a village in Eubœa, whence Diana is called Amarysia, and her festivals in that town Amarynthia.——Eubœa is sometimes called Amarynthus. Pausanias, bk. 1, ch. 31.
Amas, a mountain of Laconia. Pausanias, bk. 3.
Amăsēnus, a small river of Latium falling into the Tyrrhene sea. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 7, li. 685.
Amasia, a city of Pontus, where Mithridates the Great and Strabo the geographer were born. Strabo, bk. 12.—Pliny, bk. 6, ch. 3.
Amāsis, a man who, from a common soldier, became king of Egypt. He made war against Arabia, and died before the invasion of his country by Cambyses king of Persia. He made a law that every one of his subjects should yearly give an account to the public magistrates of the manner in which he supported himself. He refused to continue in alliance with Polycrates the tyrant of Samos, on account of his uncommon prosperity. When Cambyses came into Egypt, he ordered the body of Amasis to be dug up, and to be insulted and burnt; an action which was very offensive to the religious notions of the Egyptians. Herodotus, bks. 1, 2, 3.——A man who led the Persians against the inhabitants of Barce. Herodotus, bk. 4, ch. 201, &c.
Amastris, the wife of Dionysius the tyrant of Sicily, was sister to Darius, whom Alexander conquered. Strabo.——Also, the wife of Xerxes king of Persia. See: [Amestris].——A city of Paphlagonia, on the Euxine sea. Catullus.