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LNS

Amphinomus, Amphinomī

Amphinomus

Ἀμφίνομος

noun (m., 3^rd Greek declension)

a youth of Catana who, with his brother Anapis, saved his parents upon his shoulders from the flames of Aetna
on account of which monuments were erected to both of them by their fellow-citizens

Abbreviations

Amphinomus, i, m., = Ἀμφίνομος, a youth of Catana who, with his brother Anapis, saved his parents upon his shoulders from the flames of Aetna; 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.