or AMPHRYSSUS, in Ancient Geography, a river of Phthiotis, a district of Thessaly, running by the foot of Mount Othrys, from south to north, into the Enipeus at Thebes of Thessaly; where Apollo fed the herds of King Admetus (Virgil, Lucan). Another Amphrysus in Phrygia, rendering women barren, according to Pliny: Hence the epithet Amphryssus (Statius). Also a town of Phocis, at the foot of Mount Parnassus, encompassed with a double wall by the Thebans in the war with Philip (Paulianus): Amphryssa Vater, in Virgil, denotes the Sibyl.

AMPTHILL, a town of Bedfordshire in England, situated pleasantly between two hills, near the centre of the county, but in a barren soil. W. Long. o. 29. N. Lat. 52. 2.