Amythaonius was in Ancient Greece a patronymic from Amythaon, by which his son, the seer Melampus, was sometimes called.Virgil, Georgics 3.550; Columella 10.348 The descendants of Amythaon in general were called by the Greeks Amythaonidae.Strabo, 8. p. 372
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