place
Amaltheum
the Amaltheum
also: Amalthea, Amaltheam
A shrine and ornamented pleasure-ground that Atticus laid out on his estate at Buthrotum in Epirus, named for the nymph Amalthea who nursed the infant Zeus; Cicero alludes to it at Att. 1.13.1 and admired it as a model for his own villas.