6, ch. 5. ――_Pliny_, bk. 6, ch. 7; bk. 14, ch. 8; bk. 36, ch. 5.――_Herodotus_, bk. 4, ch. 110.――_Strabo_, bk. 11.――_Diodorus_, bk. 2.――_Dionysius of Halicarnassus_, bk. 4.――_Pausanias_, bk. 7, ch. 2.――_Plutarch_, _Theseus_.――_Apollodorus_, bk. 2, chs. 3 & 5.――_Hyginus_, fables 14 & 163. =Amazŏnia=, a celebrated mistress of the emperor Commodus.――――The country of the Amazons, near the Caspian sea. =Amazŏnium=, a place in Attica, where Theseus obtained a victory over the Amazons. =Amazŏnius=, a surname of Apollo at Lacedæmon. =Ambarri=, a people of Gallia Celtica, on the Arar, related to the Ædui. _Cæsar_, _Gallic War_, bk. 1, ch. 11. =Ambarvālia=, a joyful procession round the ploughed fields, in honour of Ceres the goddess of corn. There were two festivals of that name celebrated by the Romans, one about the month of April, the other in July. They went three times round their fields crowned with oak leaves singing hymns to Ceres, and entreating her to preserve their corn. The word is derived _ab ambiendis arvis_, going round the fields. A sow, a sheep, and a bull, called _ambarvaliæ hostiæ_, were afterwards immolated, and the sacrifice has sometimes been called _suovetaurilia_, from _sus_, _ovis_, and _taurus_. _Virgil_, _Georgics_, bk. 1, lis. 339 & 345.――_Tibullus_, bk. 2, poem 1, li. 19.――_Cato_, _de Re Rustica_, ch. 141. =Ambĕnus=, a mountain of European Sarmatia. _Flaccus_, bk. 6, ch. 85. =Ambialītes=, a people of Gallia Celtica. _Cæsar_, _Gallic War_, bk. 3, ch. 9. =Ambiānum=, a town of Belgium, now _Amiens_. Its inhabitants conspired against Julius Cæsar. _Cæsar_, _Gallic War_, bk. 2, ch. 4. =Ambiatīnum=, a village of Germany, where the emperor Caligula was born. _Suetonius_, _Caligula_, ch. 8. =Ambigātus=, a king of the Celtæ, in the time of Tarquinius Priscus. Seeing the great population of his country, he sent his two nephews, Sigovesus and Bellovesus, with two colonies, in quest of new settlements; the former towards the Hercynian woods, and the other towards Italy. _Livy_, bk. 5, ch. 34, &c. =Ambiōrix=, a king of the Eburones in Gaul. He was a great enemy to Rome, and was killed in a battle with Julius Cæsar, in which 60,000 of his countrymen were slain. _Cæsar_, _Gallic War_, bk. 5, chs. 11, 26; bk. 6, ch. 30. =Ambivius=, a man mentioned by _Cicero_, _de Senectute_. =Amblada=, a town of Pisidia. _Strabo._ =Ambracia=, a city of Epirus near the Acheron, the residence of king Pyrrhus. Augustus, after the battle of Actium, called it Nicopolis. _Mela_, bk. 2, ch. 3.――_Pliny_, bk. 4, ch. 1.――_Polybius_, bk. 4, ch. 63.――_Strabo_, bk. 10. =Ambracius Sinus=, a bay of the Ionian sea, near Ambracia, about 300 stadia deep, narrow at the entrance, but within near 100 stadia in breadth, and now called the gulf of Larta. _Polybius_, bk. 4, ch. 63.――_Mela_, bk. 2, ch. 3.――_Florus_, bk. 4, ch. 11.――_Strabo_, bk. 10.