sb. pl. Gr. Hist. [ad. Gr. ἀμφικτύονες, ‘orig. ἀμφικτίονες, they that dwelt round or near, next neighbours’ (Liddell and Scott).] Deputies from the different states of ancient Greece composing an assembly or council.
1586. T. B., La Primaudaye’s Fr. Acad., 629. The sacred councell of the Amphictions.
1602. L. Lloyd, Confer. Lawes, 43. They might appeale from the Areopagites in Athens … to the Amphictions at Trozæna.
1869. Rawlinson, Anc. Hist., 192. Sentence of the Amphictyons against Phocis, B.C. 357.
