Amphrysus
Ἄμφρυσος
Amphrysus (Ἄμφρυσος).
1.
A town of Phocis. See AMBRYSUS
2.
A small river in Thessaly, rising in Mt. Others and flowing near Alus into the Pagasaean gulf. It is celebrated in mythology as the river on the banks of which Apollo fed the flocks of king Admetus. (Strab. pp. 433, 435; Apollon. 1.54; Verg. G. 3.2; Ov. Met. 1.580, 7.229; Leake Northern Greece, vol. iv. p. 337.) Hence the adjective Amphrysius is used in reference to Apollo. Thus Virgil (Aen. 6.398) calls the Sibyl Amphrysia vates. Statius (Stat. Silv. 1.4. 105) uses the adjective Amphrysiacus in the same sense.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.