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AMPHILOCHUS  , in

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Greek
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legend, a famous seer, son of
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Amphiaraus and
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Eriphyle and
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brother of
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Alcmaeon . According to some he assisted in the
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murder of Eriphyle, which, according to others, was carried out by Alcmaeon alone (
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Apollodorus iii . 6, 7) . He took
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part in the expedition of the
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Epigoni against
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Thebes and in the Trojan
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War . After the fall of
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Troy he founded, in
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conjunction with
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Mopsus, another famous seer, the
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oracle of Mallos in
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Cilicia . The two seers afterwards fought for its
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possession, and both were slain in the combat . Amphilochus is also said to have been killed by
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Apollo (
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Strabo xiv . 675, 676) . According to another
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story, he returned to
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Argos from Troy, but, being dissatisfied with the
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condition of things there,
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left it for
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Acarnania, where he founded Amphilochian Argos on the Ambracian gulf . He was worshipped at
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Oropus,
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Athens and
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Sparta . Strabo xiv. pp . 675, 676;
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Thucydides ii .

68;

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Pausanias i . 34, iii . 15 .

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