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Ambrysus or Amphrysus (Ambrusos, Strab.; Ambrossos, Paus.; Amphrusos,
Steph. B. s.v.: Eth. Ambrusios, Ambruseus, and in Inscr. Ambrosseus Dhistomo).
a town of Phocis, was situated 60 stadia from Stiris, NE. of Anticyra, at the
southern foot of Mt. Cirphis (not at the foot of Parnassus, as Pausanias states),
and in a fertile valley, producing abundance of wine and the coccus, or kermes
berry, used to dye scarlet. It was destroyed by order of the Amphictyons, but
was rebuilt and fortified by the Thebans with a double wall, in their war against
Philip. Its fortifications were considered by Pausanias the strongest in Greece,
next to those of Messene. (Paus. x. 3. § 2, x. 36. § 1, seq., iv. 31. § 5; Strab.
p. 423.) It was taken by the Romans in the Macedonian war, B.C. 198. (Liv. xxxii.
18.) The site of Ambrysus is fixed at the modern village of Dhistomo, by an inscription
which Chandler found at the latter place. The remains of the ancient city are
few and inconsiderable. (Dodwell, Tour through Greece, vol. i. p. 196, seq.; Leake,
Northern Greece, vol. ii. p. 535, seq.)
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited July 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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