=Amy̆clæ=, a town of Italy between Caieta and Tarracina, built by the companions of Castor and Pollux. The inhabitants were strict followers of the precepts of Pythagoras, and therefore abstained from flesh. They were killed by serpents, which they thought impious to destroy, though in their own defence. _Pliny_, bk. 8, ch. 29. Once a report prevailed in Amyclæ that the enemies were coming to storm it; upon which the inhabitants made a law that forbade such a report to be credited, and when the enemy really arrived, no one mentioned it, or took up arms in his own defence, and the town was easily taken. From this circumstance the epithet of _tacitæ_ has been given to Amyclæ. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 10, li. 564.――_Silius Italicus_, bk. 8, li. 529.――――A city of Peloponnesus, built by Amyclas. Castor and Pollux were born there. The country was famous for dogs. Apollo, called Amyclæus, had a rich and magnificent temple there, surrounded with delightful groves. _Pausanias_, bk. 3, ch. 18. ――_Statius_, _Thebiad_, bk. 4, li. 223.――_Strabo_, bk. 8.――_Virgil_, _Georgics_, bk. 3, li. 345.――_Ovid_, _de Ars Amatoria_, bk. 2, li. 5. =Amyclæus=, a statuary. _Pausanias_, bk. 10, ch. 13.――――A surname of Apollo. =Amyclas=, son of Lacedæmon and Sparta, built the city of Amyclæ. His sister Eurydice married Acrisius king of Argos, by whom she had Danae. _Pausanias_, bk. 3, ch. 1; bk. 7, ch. 18.――――The master of a ship in which Cæsar embarked in disguise. When Amyclas wished to put back to avoid a violent storm, Cæsar, unveiling his head, discovered himself, and bidding the pilot pursue his voyage, exclaimed, _Cæsarem vehis, Cæsarisque fortunam_. _Lucan_, bk. 5, li. 520. =Amy̆cus=, son of Neptune by Melia, or Bithynis, according to others, was king of the Bebryces. He was famous for his skill in the management of the cestus, and he challenged all strangers to a trial of strength. When the Argonauts, in their expedition, stopped on his coasts, he treated them with great kindness, and Pollux accepted his challenge, and killed him when he attempted to overcome him by fraud. _Apollonius_, bk. 2, _Argonautica_.――_Theocritus_, _Idylls_, poem 22.――_Apollonius_, bk. 1, ch. 9.――――One of the companions of Æneas, who almost perished in a storm on the coast of Africa. He was killed by Turnus. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 1, li. 225; bk. 9, li. 772.――――Another, likewise killed by Turnus. _Ibis_, bk. 12, li. 509.――――A son of Ixion and the cloud.――_Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 12, li. 245. =Amy̆don=, a city of Pæonia in Macedonia, which sent auxiliaries to Priam during the Trojan war. _Homer_, _Iliad_, bk. 2.