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Rh tius (v. 11) quotes an epigram of Theocritus against Aristotle.

AMBRYSSUS (^A^gpi/trffos), the mythical founder of the town of Ambryssus or Amphiyssus in Phocis. (Paus. x. 36. § 2.) [L. S.] AMBU'LIA, AMBU'LII, and AMBU'LIUS CAfji.€ouia, 'AfiSoutoi, and 'AfiSovKios)^ surnames under which the Spartans worsliipped Athena, the Dioscuri, and Zeus. (Paus. iii. 13. § 4.) The meaning of the name is uncertain, but it has been supposed to be' derived from dvaSdKXo), and to de- signate those divinities as the delayers of death. [L. S,] AMBUSTUS, the name of a family of the patrician P'abia Gkns. The first member of the Fabia gens, who acquired this cognomen, was Q. Fabius Vibuknus, consul in B. c. 412, who appears to have been a son of N. Fabius Vibulanus, consul in B. c. 421. From this time the name Vibulanus was dropt, and that of Ambustus took its place. The latter was in its turn supplanted by that of Maximus, which was first .icquired by Q. Fabius, son of No. 7 [see below], and was handed down by him to his descendants. . Q. Fabius M. f. Q. n. Vibulanus Ambus- tus, consul in B. c. 412. (Liv. iv. 52.) . M. Fabius Ambustus, Pontifex Maximus in the year that Rome was taken by the Gauls, II. c. 390. His three sons [see Nos. 3, 4, and 5] were sent as ambassadors to the Gauls, when the latter were besieging Clusium, and took part in a sally of the besieged against the Gauls. The Gauls demanded that the Fabii should be sur- rendered to them for violating the law of nations ; and upon the sen.ite refusing to give up the guilty parties, they marched against Rome. The three sons were in the same year elected consular tri- bunes. (Liv. v. 35, 36, 41 ; Plut. Cam. 17.) . K. Fabius M. f. Q. n. Ambustus, son of No. 2 and brother lo Nos. 4 and 5, was quaestor in b. c. 409, with three plebeians as his colleagues, •which was the first time that quaestors were chosen from the plebs. (Liv. iv. 54.) He was consular tribune for the first time in 404 (iv. 61), again in 401 (v. 10), a third time in 395 (v. 24), and a fourth time in 390. [See No. 2.) . N. Fabius M. f. Q. n. Ambustus, son of No. 2 and brother to Nos. 3 and 5, consular tri- bune in B. c. 406 (Liv. iv. 58), and again in 390. [See No. 2.] . Q. Fabius M. f. Q. n. Ambustus, son of No. 2 and brother to Nos. 3 and 4, consular tri- bune in B. c. 390. [See No. 2.J . M. Fabius K. f. M. n. Ambustus, son, as it appears, of No. 3, was consular tribune in B. c. 381. (liiv. vi. 22.) He had two daughters, of whom the elder was married to Ser. Sulpicius, and the younger to C. Licinius Stolo, the author of the Licinian Rogations. According to the story re- corded by Livy, the younger Fabia induced her father to assist her husband in obtaining the con- sulship for the plebeian order, into which she had inarried. (vi. 34.) Ambustus was consular tribune a second time in 369, and took an active part in support of the Licinian Rogations, (vi. 36.) He was censor in 363. {Fast. Capitol.) . M. Fabius N. f. M. n. Ambustus, son, as It appears, of No. 4, was consul in B. c. 360, and carried on the war against the Hernici, whom he conquered, and obtained an ovation in consequence. (Liv. vii. 1] ; Fast. Triumph.) He was consul a second time in 356, and carried on the war against the Falisci and Tarquinienses, whom he also con- quered. As he was absent from Rome when the time came for holding the comitia, the senate, which did not like to entrust them to his colleague, who had appointed a plebeian dictator, and still less to the dictator himself, nominated interreges for the purpose. The object of the patricians was to secure both places in the consulship for their own order again, which was effected by Ambustus, who seems to have returned to Rome meantime. He was appointed the eleventh interrex, and de- clared two patricians consuls in violation of the Licinian law. (Liv. vii. 17.) He was consul a third time in 354, when he conquered the Tiburtes and obtained a triumph in consequence, (vii. 18, 19; Fast. Triumph.) In 351 he was appointed dictator merely to frustrate the Licinian law again at the comitia, but did not succeed in his object. (Liv. vii. 22.) He was alive in 325, when his son, Q. Fabius Maximus RuUianus, was master of the horse to Papirius, and fled to Rome to implore protection from the vengeance of the dictator. He interceded on his son's behalf both with the senate and the people, (viii. 33.) . C. Fabius (C. f. M. n.) Ambustus, consul in b. c. 358, in which year a dictator was ap- pointed through fear of the Gauls. (Liv. vii, 12.) . M. Fabius M. f. N. n. Ambustus, son ap- parently of No. 7, and brother to the great Q. Fabius Maximus RuUianus, was master of the horse in b. c. 322. (Liv. viii. 38.) . Q. Fabius (Q. f. Q. n.) Ambustus, dic- tator in b. c. 321, but immediately resigned through some fault in the election. (Liv. ix. 7.) . C. Fabius M. f. N. n. Ambustus, son ap- parently of No. 7, and brother to No. 9, was appointed master of the horse in b. c. 315 in place of Q. Aulius, who fell in battle. (Liv, ix. 23.) AMEINIAS. [Narcissus.] AMEl'NIAS ('A/ieji/ios), a younger brother of Aeschylus, of the Attic demos of Pallene accord- ing to Herodotus (viii. 84, 93), or of that of Decelea according to Plutarch {Them. 14), distin- guished himself at the battle of Salamis(B. c. 480) by making the first attack upon the Persian ships, and also by his pursuit of Artemisia. He and Eumenes were judged to have been the bravest on this occasion among all the Athenians. (Herod. Pint. //. CO.; Diod. xi. 27.) Aelian mentions {V. H. V. 19), that Ameinias prevented the con- demnation of his brother Aeschylus by the Areio- pagus. [Aeschylus, p. 41, a.]

AMEINOCLES ('Ajtt€ii/o/cA7js), a Corinthian shipbuilder, who visited Saraos about B. c. 704, and built four ships for the Samians. (Thuc. i. 13.) Pliny (//. N. vii. 56) says, that Thucydides men- tioned Ameinocles as the inventor of the trireme ; but this is a mistake, for Thucydides merely states that triremes were first built at Corinth in Greece, without ascribing their invention to Ameinocles. Accordin? to SjMicellus (p. 212, c), triremes were first built at Athens by Ameinocles.

 AMEI′PSIAS, a comic poet of Athens, contemporary with Aristophanes, whom he twice conquered in the dramatic contests, gaining the second prize with his when Aristophanes was third with the "Clouds" (423 B. C.), and the first with his , when Aristophanes gained the second with the "Birds." (414 B. C.; Argum. in Aristoph. Nub. et Av.) The 