Amȳmōne

, daughter of Danaus and Europa, married Enceladus son of Ægyptus, whom she murdered the first night of her nuptials. She wounded a satyr with an arrow which she had aimed at a stag. The satyr pursued her, and even offered her violence, but Neptune delivered her. It was said that she was the only one of the 50 sisters who was not condemned to fill a leaky tub with water in hell, because she had been continually employed, by order of her father, in supplying the city of Argos with water in a great drought. Neptune saw her in this employment, and was enamoured of her. He carried her away, and in the place where she stood, he raised a fountain by striking a rock. The fountain has been called Amymone. She had Nauplius by Neptune. Pro pert i us , bk. 2 , poem 26, li. 46 .— Apollo dor us , bk. 2 .— Strabo , bk. 8 .— Pausanias , bk. 2 , ch. 37 .— Ovid , Amores , bk. 1 , li. 515 .— Hyginus , fable 169.――A fountain and rivulet of Peloponnesus, flowing through Argolis into the lake of Lerna. Ovid , Metamorphoses , bk. 2 , li. 240 . Amyntas I. , was king of Macedonia after his father Alcetas. His son Alexander murdered the amba adors of Mega by zus, for their wanton and insolent behaviour to the ladies of his father’s court. Bubares, a Persian general, was sent with an army to revenge the death of the amba adors; but instead of making war, he married the king’s daughter, and defended his po e ions. Justin , bk. 7 , ch. 3 .— Hero dot us , bks. 5, 7, & 8.――The second of that name was son of Menelaus, and king of Macedonia after his murder of Pausanias. He was expelled by the Illyrians, and restored by the The alians and Spartans. He made war against the Illyrians and Olynthians, and lived to a great age. His wife Eurydice conspired against his life; but her snares were seasonably discovered by one of his daughters by a former wife. He had Alexander, Perdiccas, and Philip, Alexander the Great’s father, by his first wife; and by the other he had Archelaus, Aridæus, and Menelaus. He reigned 24 years; and soon after his death his son Philip murdered all his brothers, and ascended the throne.— Justin , bk. 7 , chs. 4 & 9.— Diodorus , bk. 14 , . — Cornel i us Nepos & Plutarch , Pelopidas .――There is another king of Macedonia of the same name, but of his life few particulars are recorded in history.――A man who succeeded Dejotarus, in the kingdom of Gallogræcia. After his death it became a Roman province under August us. Strabo , bk. 12 .――One of Alexander’s officers.――Another officer who deserted to Darius, and was killed as he attempted to seize Egypt. Curtius , bk. 3 , ch. 9 .――A son of Antiochus, who withdrew himself from Macedonia, because he hated Alexander.――An officer in Alexander’s cavalry. He had two brothers, called Simias and Polemon. He was accused of a conspiracy against the king, on account of his great intimacy with 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.