Amyclas
Americannoun
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a son of Lacedaemon and Sparta.
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a son of Niobe and Amphion.
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Lucan makes Caesar exclaim, on witnessing the secure poverty of the fisherman Amyclas: —O vite tuta facultas Pauperis, angustique lares!
From Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Complete by Henry Francis Cary
Amyclas is mentioned, instead of Hyacinthus, by Simmias περὶ μηνῶν, ap.
From The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 1 of 2 by Karl Otfried Müller
And Lucan says this when he depicts how Cæsar came by night to the little house of the fisher Amyclas to cross the Adriatic Sea.
From The Banquet (Il Convito) by Elizabeth Price Sayer
Phylarchus says, that this was Daphne, the daughter of Amyclas, who, flying from Apollo, was transformed into a laurel, and honored by that god with the gift of prophecy.
From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Arthur Hugh Clough
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