in antiquity, the principal magistrates of Syracuse. They were established by Timoleon in the 109th Olympiad, after the expulsion of the tyrant Dionysius. They governed Syracuse for the space of 300 years; and Diodorus Siculus assures us, that they subsisted in his time.

a city of Macedonia, an Athenian colony, on the Strymon, but on which side is not to certain: Pliny places it in Macedonia, on this side; but Scylax, in Thrace, on the other. The name of the town, Amphipolis, however, seems to reconcile their difference; because, as Thucydides observes, it was washed on two sides by the Strymon, which dividing itself into two channels, the city stood in the middle, and on the side towards the sea there was a wall built from channel to channel. Its ancient name was Ἐπίστημον, the Nine Ways, (Thucydides, Herodotus.) The citizens were called Amphipolitani, (Livy.) It was afterwards called Chrysopolis; now Chrysopolis, or Chrysopolis, (Holland.)

a town of Syria, on the Euphrates, built by Seleucus, called by the Syrians Turmeda, (Stephanus;) the same with Ἐπίστημον, (Pliny;) and supposed to have been only renewed and adorned by Seleucus, because long famous before his time, (Xenophon.)