Amphictyons sacrificed an ox to the god of Delphi, and cut his flesh into small pieces, intimating that union and unanimity prevailed in the several cities which they represented. Their decisions were held sacred and inviolable, and even arms were taken up to enforce them. _Pausanias_, _Phocis_ & _Achaia_.――_Strabo_, bk. 8.――_Suidas._ ――_Hesychius._――_Aeschines._ =Amphiclea=, a town of Phocis, where Bacchus had a temple. =Amphidāmus=, a son of Aleus, brother to Lycurgus. He was of the family of the Inachidæ. _Pausanias_, bk. 8, ch. 4.――――One of the Argonauts. _Flaccus_, bk. 1, li. 376.――――A son of Busiris, killed by Hercules. _Apollodorus_, bk. 2, ch. 5. =Amphidrŏmia=, a festival observed by private families at Athens, the fifth day after the birth of every child. It was customary to _run round_ the fire with a child in their arms; whence the name of the festivals. =Amphigenīa=, a town of Messenia in Peloponnesus. _Statius_, _Thebiad_, bk. 4, li. 178. =Amphilŏchus=, a son of Amphiaraus and Eriphyle. After the Trojan war, he left Argos, his native country, and built Amphilochus, a town of Epirus. _Strabo_, bk. 7.――_Pausanias_, bk. 2, ch. 18.――――An Athenian philosopher who wrote upon agriculture. _Varro_, _de Re Rustica_, bk. 1. =Amphily̆tus=, a soothsayer of Acarnania, who encouraged Pisistratus to seize the sovereign power of Athens. _Herodotus_, bk. 1, ch. 62. =Amphimăche=, a daughter of Amphidamus, wife of Eurystheus. _Apollodorus_, bk. 2. =Amphimăchus=, one of Helen’s suitors, son of Cteatus. He went to the Trojan war. _Apollodorus_, bk. 3, ch. 10.――_Hyginus_, fable 97.――――A son of Actor and Theronice. _Pausanias_, bk. 5, ch. 3. =Amphimĕdon=, a Libyan killed by Perseus, in the court of Cepheus. _Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 5, li. 75.――――One of Penelope’s suitors, killed by Telemachus. _Homer_, _Odyssey_, bk. 22, li. 283. =Amphinŏme=, the name of one of the attendants of Thetis. _Homer_, _Iliad_, bk. 18, li. 44. =Amphinŏmus=, one of Penelope’s suitors, killed by Telemachus. _Homer_, _Odyssey_, bks. 16 & 22. =Amphinŏmus= and =Anapius=, two brothers, who, when Catana and the neighbouring cities were in flames, by an eruption from mount Ætna, saved their parents upon their shoulders. The fire, as it is said, spared them while it consumed others by their side; and Pluto, to reward their uncommon piety, placed them after death in the island of Leuce, and they received divine honours in Sicily. _Valerius Maximus_, bk. 5, ch. 4.――_Strabo_, bk. 6.――_Silius Italicus_, bk. 14, li. 197.――_Seneca_, _de Beneficiis_.