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AMPHILCHUS

Volume 17 · 148 words · 1810 Edition

bishop of Iconium, in the fourth century, was the friend of St Gregory Nazianzen and St Basil. He assisted at the first general council of Constantinople in 381; presided at the council of Side; and was a strenuous opponent of the Arians. He died in 394; and his works were published in Greek and Latin at Paris in 1644, by Francis Combes.

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 from the oracle, in the reign of the emperor Commodus.