=Amalthæa=, daughter of Melissus king of Crete, fed Jupiter with goat’s milk. Hence some authors have called her a goat, and have maintained that Jupiter, to reward her kindnesses, placed her in heaven as a constellation, and gave one of her horns to the nymphs who had taken care of his infant years. This horn was called the horn of plenty, and had the power to give the nymphs whatever they desired. _Diodorus_, bks. 3, 4, 5.――_Ovid_, _Fasti_, bk. 5, li. 113.――_Strabo_, bk. 10.――_Hyginus_, fable 139.――_Pausanias_, bk. 7, ch. 26.――――A Sibyl of Cumæ, called also Hierophile and Demophile. She is supposed to be the same who brought nine books of prophecies to Tarquin king of Rome, &c. _Varro._――_Tibullus_, bk. 2, poem 5, li. 67. _See:_ Sibyllæ. =Amalthēum=, a public place which Atticus had opened in his country house, called Amalthea, in Epirus, and provided with everything which could furnish entertainment and convey instruction. _Cicero_, _Letters to Atticus_, bk. 1, ltr. 13. =Amăna=, or =Amanus=, part of mount Taurus in Cilicia. _Lucan_, bk. 3, li. 244. =Cn. Salvius Amandus=, a rebel general under Diocletian, who assumed imperial honours, and was at last conquered by Diocletian’s colleague. =Amantes=, or =Amantīni=, a people of Illyricum descended from the Abantes of Phocis. _Callimachus._ =Amānus=, one of the deities worshipped in Armenia and Cappadocia. _Strabo_, bk. 11.――――A mountain in Cilicia. =Amārăcus=, an officer of Cinyras, changed into marjoram. =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.