=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._ =Amastrus=, one of the auxiliaries of Perses, against Ætes king of Colchis, killed by Argus son of Phryxus. _Flaccus_, bk. 6, li. 544. ――――A friend of Æneas, killed by Camilla in the Rutulian war. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 11, li. 673. =Amāta=, the wife of king Latinus. She had betrothed her daughter Lavinia to Turnus, before the arrival of Æneas in Italy. She zealously favoured the interest of Turnus, and when her daughter was given in marriage to Æneas, she hung herself to avoid the sight of her son-in-law. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 7, &c. =Amăthus= (genitive: untis), now _Limisso_, a city on the southern side of the island of Cyprus, particularly dedicated to Venus. The island is sometimes called Amathusia, a name not unfrequently applied to the goddess of the place. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 10, li. 51.――_Claudius Ptolemy_, bk. 5, ch. 14. =Amaxampēus=, a fountain of Scythia, whose waters imbitter the stream of the river Hypanis. _Herodotus_, bk. 4, ch. 52. =Amaxia=, or =Amaxīta=, an ancient town of Troas.――――A place of Cilicia abounding with wood fit for building ships. _Pliny_, bk. 5, ch. 9.――_Strabo_, bk. 14. =Amazēnes=, or =Mazēnes=, a prince of the island Oaractus, who sailed for some time with the Macedonians and Nearchus in Alexander’s expedition to the east. _Arrian_, _Indica_.