Ămorgus or -ŏs, i, f., = Ἀμοργός,
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.