Ambulia

Ambulia (Ἀμβουλία), Ambulii (Ἀμβούλιοι), Ambulius (Ἀμβούλιος) — surnames under which the Spartans worshiped Athena, Zeus, and the Dioscuri.1

The meaning of the name is uncertain, but it has been supposed to be derived from anaballo (ἀναβάλλω), "to defer," and to designate those divinities as the delayers of death.

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References

Notes

  1. Pausanias. Description of Greece iii, 13.4.

Source

  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.