In Greek mythology, Amphinomus (; Amphínomos; literally "between or around laws". From the root words Amphi/: Between or on both sides, or around; and Nomus/Nomos:: Rules/Laws) may refer to the following personages:
Amphinomus, the Aetolian father of Thyrie (Hyria) who became the mother of Cycnus by Apollo.Antoninus Liberalis, 12 Amphinomus, a prince of Dulichium as the son of King Nisos. He was one of the suitors of PenelopeApollodorus, E.7.27 and was considered the best-behaved of them. Despite Odysseus's warning, Amphinomus was compelled by Athena to stay, as he had been a suitor nonetheless. He was killed by a spear thrown by Telemachus during the Ithaca massacre; ironically, Amphinomus had twice tried to dissuade the suitors from killing Telemachus.Homer, Odyssey 18.395 & 412, 20.244 & 22.89; Apollodorus, E.7.33 Amphinomus, son of Diomedes and the daughter of King Daunus of Apulia in Italy.Antoninus Liberalis, 37 Amphinomus, brother of Anapias (named in latin: Pii Fratres, ): they are legendary characters of the Greek Catania (Sicily, Italy), who saved their parents from an eruption of Etna, carrying them on their shoulders.Silius Italicus, 14.197Pausanias, Description of Greece 10.38 & 4Valerius Maximus, 5.4Seneca the Younger, De Beneficiis 3.37 & 2Solinus, Collectanea rerum memorabilium 5.15Strabo, Geographica 6.2-3Ausonius, Ordo urbium nobilium 91-92Claudian, Carmina minora 13.1 & 48Pseudo-Virgil, Aetna 624(a)-45, in Appendix VergilianaMartial 7.24-25
There was also a Greek geometer called Amphinomus. He is thought to have flourished in the fourth century BC, but is otherwise unknown. He is mentioned a few times by Proclus in his Commentary on the First Book of Euclid's Elements.Morrow 63
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References Antoninus Liberalis, The Metamorphoses of Antoninus Liberalis translated by Francis Celoria (Routledge 1992). Online version at the Topos Text Project. Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website. Homer, The Odyssey with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, PH.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1919. . Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website. Glenn R. Morrow, Proclus: A Commentary on the First Book of Euclid's Elements, Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey (1970).