in ecclesiastical writers, denotes the veil or curtain which was drawn before the door of the bema in ancient churches.

AMPHILOCHIA (anc. geog.), the territory of the city of Argos in Arcadia; Amphilocheum, (Thucydides); called Amphilochei (from the people,) in the lower age, (Stephanus.) A town also of Spain, in Galicia, built by Teucer, and denominated from Amphilocheus one of his companions, (Strabo:) now Orense. W. Long. 8. 20. Lat. 42. 36.