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.