in ecclesiastical writers, denotes the veil or curtain which was drawn before the door of the bema in ancient churches.

AMPHILOCHIA, in Ancient Geography, the territory of the city of Argos in Arcania: Amphilocheum, (Thucydides); called Amphilocheia (from the people), in the lower age, (Stephanus). A town also of Spain, in Galicia, built by Teucer, and denominated