Ambulia

{{short description|Ancient Greek mythological epithet}}

Ambulia, Ambulius and Ambulii (Gr. {{lang|grc|Ἀμβουλία}}, {{lang|grc|Ἀμβούλιος}} and {{lang|grc|Ἀμβούλιοι}}) were cultic epithets under which the Spartans worshiped the Greek deities Athena, Zeus, and the Dioscuri.Pausanias, Description of Greece iii. 13. §4 The meaning of the name (the three are merely the feminine, masculine, and plural forms of the same word) is uncertain, but it has been supposed to be derived from the Greek anaballo ({{lang|grc|ἀναβάλλω}}), and to designate those divinities as the delayers of death.{{cite encyclopedia | last = Schmitz | first = Leonhard | authorlink = Leonhard Schmitz | title = Ambulia, Ambulii, Ambulius | editor = William Smith | encyclopedia = Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology | volume = 1 | pages = 141 | publisher = Little, Brown and Company | location = Boston | year = 1867 | url = http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0150.html | access-date = 2010-03-01 | archive-date = 2010-11-20 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20101120041626/http://ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0150.html | url-status = usurped }}