proper noun
Amphĭnŏmus
Meaning
- a youth of Catana who
Amphĭnŏmus, i, m., = Ἀμφίνομος,
I. a youth of Catana who, with his brother Anapis, saved his parents upon his shoulders from the flames of Ætna; on account of which monuments were erected to both of them by their fellow-citizens, Sen. Ben. 3, 37; Sil. 14, 197; Val. Max. 5, 4, ext. 4.