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AMORGOS

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or AMORGUS, (anc. geogr.) now Mergo, not far from Naxus to the east, one of the European Sporades; the country of Simonides the Iambic poet, (Strabo.) To this island criminals were banished, (Tacitus.) It was famous for a fine flax called Enorgos. See Mergo.