Amorgus

• one of the Sporades in the Aegean Sea, the birthplace of the poet Simonides; under the Roman emperors, a place for the banishment of criminals; now Amorgo, Plin. 4, 12, 23, § 70; Tac. A. 4, 30; v. Mann. Gr. 734 sq.

(Ἀμοργός). An island, one of the Sporades (q.v.), and the birthplace of the poet Simonides. The Roman emperors used it as a place of banishment.