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AMARYNTHUS

Volume 1 · 42 words · 1797 Edition

(anc. geog.), a hamlet of Eretias, in the island of Euboea, about seven stadia distant from its walls. Here Diana was worshipped by an annual solemnity, at which those of Carythus assisted; hence the title of the goddess was Amarynthia, and Amarysia.