Philotas, and acquitted. _Curtius_, bk. 4, ch. 15; bk. 6, ch. 9; bk. 8, ch. 12.――――A shepherd’s name in Virgil’s _Eclogues_.――――A Greek writer who composed several works quoted by Athenæus, 10 & 12. =Amyntiānus=, an historian in the age of Antoninus, who wrote a treatise in commendation of Philip, Olympias, and Alexander. =Amyntor=, a king of Argos, son of Phrastor. He deprived his son Phœnix of his eyes, to punish him for the violence which he had offered to Clytia his concubine. _Hyginus_, fable 173.――_Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 8, li. 307.――_Apollodorus_, bk. 3.――_Homer_, _Iliad_, bk. 9.――――A general of the Dolopes. _Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 12, li. 364.――――A son of Ægyptus, killed by Damone the first night of his marriage. _Hyginus_, fable 170. =Amyris=, a man of Sybaris, who consulted the oracle of Delphi concerning the probable duration of his country’s prosperity, &c. =Amyrīcus Campus=, a plain of Thessaly. _Polybius_, bk. 3. =Amyrius=, a king by whom Cyrus was killed in a battle. _Ctesias._ =Amy̆rus=, a town of Thessaly.――――A river mentioned by _Valerius Flaccus_, bk. 2, li. 11. =Amystis=, a river of India falling into the Ganges. _Arrian_, _Indica_. =Amythāon=, a son of Cretheus king of Iolchos, by Tyro. He married Idomene, by whom he had Bias and Melampus. After his father’s death, he established himself in Messenia with his brother Neleus, and re-established or regulated the Olympic games. Melampus is called _Amythaonius_, from his father Amythaon. _Virgil_, _Georgics_, bk. 3, li. 550.――_Diodorus_, bk. 4.――_Apollodorus_, bk. 1.――_Homer_, _Odyssey_, bk. 11.――――A son of Hippasus, who assisted Priam in the Trojan war, and was killed by Lycomedes. _Homer_, _Iliad_, bk. 17. =Amytis=, a daughter of Astyages, whom Cyrus married. _Ctesias._――――A daughter of Xerxes, who married Megabyzus, and disgraced herself by her debaucheries. =Anăces=, or =Anactes=, a name given to Castor and Pollux among the Athenians. Their festivals were called Anaceia. _Plutarch_, _Theseus_.――_Cicero_, _de Natura Deorum_, bk. 3, ch. 21.