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 *Amphrysticus* (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 (Pausanias): *Amphrysa Vates*, 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. Population 1277 in 1811. W. Long. 0° 29'. N. Lat. 52° 2'.