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Amyclas

American  
[uh-mahy-klas, -kluhs] / əˈmaɪ klæs, -kləs /

noun

Classical Mythology.
  1. a son of Lacedaemon and Sparta.

  2. a son of Niobe and Amphion.


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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 Sayer, Elizabeth Price

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 Müller, Karl Otfried

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 Clough, Arthur Hugh

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 Cary, Henry Francis

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