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AMPHILOCCHUS

Volume 1 · 86 words · 1797 Edition

son of Amphiarus and Eriphyle, was a celebrated diviner. He had an altar erected to him at Athens, and an oracle at Mallus in Cilicia, which city was founded by him and Mopsus. The answers of this oracle were given by dreams; the party inquiring used to pass a night in the temple, and that night's dream was the answer. Dion Cassius mentions a picture done by order of Sextus Condianus, representing the answer he received of the oracle, in the reign of the emperor Commodus.