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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.

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Ad Atticum 1.16 letters · 2 mentions
Ad Atticum 2.1 letters · 1 mention

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