in Antiquity, the principal magistrates of Syracuse. They were established by Timoleon in the 100th Olympiad, after the expulsion of the tyrant Dionysius. They governed Syracuse for the space of 300 years: and Diodorus Siculus affirms us, that they subsisted in his time.

in Ancient Geography, a city of Macedonia, an Athenian colony, on the Strymon, but on which side is not 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 Ennea Æda, the Nine ways (Thucydides, Herodotus.) The citizens were called Amphipolitans, (Livy). It was afterwards called Chrytopolis; now Chirnopolis, or Chirpolis, (Hollandius.)

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