Amnīsus, a port of Gnossus, at the north of Crete, with a small river of the same name, near which Lucina had a temple. The nymphs of the place were called Amnisiades. Callimachus.
Amœbæus, an Athenian player of great reputation, who sung at the nuptials of Demetrius and Nicæa. Polyænus, bk. 4, ch. 6.
Amomētus, a Greek historian. Pliny, bk. 6, ch. 17.
Amor, the son of Venus, was the god of love. See: [Cupido].
Amorges, a Persian general, killed in Caria, in the reign of Xerxes. Herodotus, bk. 5, ch. 121.
Amorgos, an island among the Cyclades, where Simonides was born. Strabo, bk. 10.
Ampĕlus, a promontory of Samos.——A town of Crete,——of Macedonia,——of Liguria,——and Cyrene.——A favourite of Bacchus, son of a satyr and a nymph, made a constellation after death. Ovid, Fasti, bk. 3, li. 407.
Ampelūsia, a promontory of Africa, in Mauritania. Mela, bk. 1, chs. 5 & 6.
Amphēa, a city of Messenia, taken by the Lacedæmonians. Pausanias, bk. 4, ch. 5.
Amphialāus, a famous dancer in the island of the Phæacians. Homer, Odyssey, bk. 8.