) Antheia
ANTHIANUS
(ANTHUS?
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a
(Virg.
Aen.
vi.
484 ; Hom.
Il.
xi.
221.
)
Homeric account, he was one of the wisest among At Cyrene, where Antenor according to some ac-
the elders at Troy, and received Menelaus and counts had settled after the destruction of Troy,
Odysseus into his house when they came to Troy the Antenoridae enjoyed heroic honours. (Pind.
as ambassadors. (n. iii. 146, &c. , 203, &c. ) He Pyth. v. 108. )
(L. S. )
also advised his fellow-citizens to restore Helen to ANTEROS. [Eros. ]
Menelaus. (II. vii. 348, &c. ) This is the sub- ANTEVORTA, also called PORRIMA or
stance of all that is said about him in the Homeric PRORSA (Ov. Fast. i. 633; Gell. xvi. 16), toge-
poems; but the suggestion contained therein, that ther with Postvorta, are described either as the
Antenor entertained a friendly disposition towards two sisters or companions of the Roman goddess
the Greeks, has been seized upon and exaggerated Carmenta. (Ov. l. c. ; Macrob. Sat. i. 7. ) It seems
by later writers. Before the Trojan war, he is to be clear, from the manner in which Macrobius
said to have been sent by Priam to Greece to claim speaks of Antevorta and Postvorta, that originally
the surrender of Hesione, who had been carried off they were only two attributes of the one goddess
by the Greeks; but this mission was not followed Carmenta, the former describing her knowledge of
by any favourable result. (Dares Phryg. 5. ) When the future and the latter that of the past, analogous
Menelaus and Odysseus came to Troy, they would to the two-headed Janus. But that in later times
have been killed by the sons of Priam, had it not Antevorta and Postvorta were regarded as two dis-
been for the protection which Antenor afforded them. tinct beings, companions of Carmenta, or as two
(Dict. Cret. i. 11. ). Just before the taking of Troy Carmentae, is expressly said by Varro (ap. Gell.
his friendship for the Greeks assumes the character I. c. ), Ovid, and Macrobius. According to Varro,
of treachery towards his own country; for when who also says, that they had two altars at Rome,
sent to Agamemnon to negotiate peace, he devised they were invoked by pregnant women, to avert
with bim and Odysseus a plan of delivering the the dangers of child-birth.
(L. S. ]
city, and even the palladium, into their hands. ANTHAEUS ('Aveaios) or Antaeus, a physi-
(Dict. Cret. iv. 22, v. 8 ; Serv. ad Aen. i. 246, 651, cian, whose ridiculous and superstitious remedy
ii. 15; Tzetzes, ad Lycophr. 339; Suidas, s. r. for hydrophobia is mentioned by Pliny. (H. N.
Faládiov. ) When Troy was plundered, the skin xxviii. 2. ) One of his prescriptions is preserved
of a panther was hung up at the door of Antenor's by Galen. (De Compos. Medicum. sc. Locos, iv. 8.
house, as a sign for the Greeks not to commit any vol. xii. p. 764. ) Nothing is known of the events
outrage upon it. (Schol. ad Pind. Pyth. v. 108; Paus. of his life, but, as Pliny mentions him, he must
x. 17 ; Sirab. xiii. p. 608. ) His history after this have lived some time in or before the first century
event is related differently. Dictys (v. 17; comp. after Christ.
(W. A. G. ]
Serv. ad Aen. ix. 264) states, that he founded a ANTHAS ('Avdás), a son of Poseidon and Al-
new kingdom at Troy upon and out of the rem- cyone, the daughter of Atlas. He was king of
nants of the old one; and according to others, he Troezen, and believed to have built the town of
embarked with Menelaus and Helen, was carried Antheia, and according to a Boeotian tradition, the
to Libya, and settled at Cyrene (Pind. Pyth. v. town of Anthedon also. Other accounts stated, that
110); or he went with the Heneti to Thrace, and Anthedon derived its name from a nymph Anthedon.
thence to the western coast of the Adriatic, where (Paus. ii. 30. § 7, &c. , ix. 22. & 5. ) [L. S. ]
the foundation of several towns is ascribed to him. ANTHEAS LI'NDIUS ("Avőeas ), a Greek
(Strab. l. c. ; Serv. ad Aen. i. 1; Liv. i. 1. ) An- poet, of Lindus in Rhodes, flourished about B. C.
tenor with his family and his house, on which the 596. He was one of the earliest eminent composers of
panther's skin was seen, was painted in the Lesche phallic songs, which he himself sung at the head of
at Delphi. (Paus. l. c. ),
(L. S. ) his phallophori. (Athen. x. p. 445. ) Hence he
ANTE'NOR ('Artrivwp), the son of Euphranor, is ranked by Athenaeus (1. c. ) as a comic poet, but
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ANTHES.
ANTIAS.
&
this is not precisely correct, since he lived before the island of Calnuria was originally called, after
the period when comedy assumed its proper form. him, Anthedonia.
(L. S. ]
It is well observed by Bode (Dram. Dichtkunst. ANTHEUS ('Avdets), the blooming, a surname
ii. p. 16), that Antheas, with his comus of phalio of Dionysus. (Paus. vii. 21. & 2. ) Anthius, a sur-
phori, stands in the same relation to comedy as name which Dionysus bore at Athens, is probably
Arion, with his dithyrambic chorus, to tragedy. only a different form for Antheus. (Paus. i. 31. 82. )
(See also Dict. of Ant. s. 1. Comoediu. ) (P. S. ) There are also two fabulous personages of this
ANTHEDON. (ANTHAS. ]
name. (Hygin. Fab. 157; Virg. Aen, i. 181, 510,
ANTHEIA ("Avdeia), the blooming, or the xii. 443. )
(L. S. )
friend of flowers, a surname of Hera, under which ANTHEUS, a Greek sculptor of considerable
she had a temple at Argos. Before this temple reputation, though not of first-rate excellence,
was the mound under which the women were bu- flourished about 180 B. C. (Plin. xxxiv. 19, where
ried who had come with Dionysus from the Aegean Antheus is a correction for the common reading
jslands, and had fallen in a contest with the Ar Antaeus. )
[P. S. )
gives and Perseus. (Paus. ii. 22. § 1.
) Antheia ANTHIANUS (ANTHUS? ), FURIUS, a
was used at Gnossus as a surname of Aphrodite. Roman jurisconsult, of uncertain date. He was
(Hesych. s. v. )
(L. S. ] probably not later than Severus Alexander. He
ANTHE’LII ('Avoňaoi daiuoves), certain di- wrote a work upon the Edict, which in the Floren-
vinities whose images stood before the doors of tine Index to the Digest is entitled méposéBIKTOV
houses, and were exposed to the sun, whence they Bubala 6te, but there are only three extracts
derived their name. (Aeschyl. Agam. 530; Lobeck, made from it in the Digest, and all of these are
ud Soph. Ajac. 805. )
[L. S. ]
taken from the first book. This has led many to
ANTHEMIUS, emperor of the West, remark hold that the compilers of the Digest possessed
able for his reign exhibiting the last effort of the only an imperfect copy of his work. (P. I. Besier,
Eastern empire to support the sinking fortunes of Diss. de Furio Anthiano, J. C. ejusque fragmentis,
the Western. He was the son of Procopius, and Lug. Bat. 1803. )
[J. T. G. )
son-in-law of the emperor Marcian, and on Ricimer A'NTHIMUS ('Avoluos), bishop of Trapezus
applying to the eastern emperor Leo for a successor in Pontus, was made patriarch of Constantinople
to Majorian in the west, he was in a. D. 467 by the influence of the empress Theodora (A. D.
named for the office, in which he was confirmed 535), and about the same time was drawn over to
at Rome. His daughter was married to Ricimer; the Eutychian heresy by Severus. Soon after his
but a quarrel arising between Anthemius and election to the patriarchate, Agapetus, the bishop
Ricimer, the latter acknowledged Olybrius as em- of Rome, came to Constantinople, and obtained
peror, and laid siege to Rome, which he took by from the emperor Justinian a sentence of deposi-
storm in 473. Anthemius perished in the assault
. tion against Anthimus, which was confirmed by a
His private life, which seems to have been good, synod held at Constantinople under Mennas, the
is given in the panegyric upon him by Sidonius successor of Anthimus. (A. D. 536 ; Novell. 42;
Apollonius, whom he patronized ; bis public life in Mansi, Nova Collect. Concil
. viii. pp. 821, 869,
Jornandes (cle Reb. Get. c. 45), Marcellinus (Chron. ), 1149-1158; Labbe, v. ; AGAPETL's. ) Some frag-
and Theophanes (p. 101). See Gibbon, Decline ments of the debate between Anthimus and Aga-
und Fall c. 36.
(A. P. S. ] petus in the presence of Justinian are preserved in
ANTHEMIUS ('Avoémios), an eminent mathe the Acts of the Councils.
[P. S. )
matician and architect, born at Tralles, in Lydia, ANTHIPPUS ("AVOITTOS), a Greek comic poet,
in the sixth century after Christ. His father's a play of whose is cited by Athenaeus (ix. p. 403),
name was Stephanus, who was a physician (Alex. where, however, we ought perhaps to read Avalir.
Trall. iv. 1, p. 198); one of his brothers was the *9. (ANAXIPPUS. )
(P. S. )
celebrated Alexander Trallianus; and Agathias ANTHUS ("Avoos), a son of Autonous and
mentions (Hisi. v. p. 149), that his three other Hippodameia, who was torn to pieces by the horses
brothers, Dioscorus, Metrodorus, and Olympius, of his father, and was metamorphosed into a bird
were each eminent in their several professions, which imitated the neighing of a horse, but always
He was one of the architects employed by the fled from the sight of a horse. (Anton. Lib. 1 ;
emperor Justinian in the building of the church of Plin. H. N. x. 57. )
(L. S. )
St. Sophia, A. D. 532 (Procop. in Combefis. Manip. A'NTIA GENS, of which the cognomens are
Rerum CPol. p. 284; Agath. Hist. v. p. 149, Briso and Restio, seems to have been of con-
&c. ; Du Cange, CPolis Christ. lib. ii. p. 11; siderable antiquity. The only person of this name,
Anselm. Bandur. ad Antiq. CPol. p. 77:2), and who has no cognomen, is Sp. ANTIUS.
to him Eutocius dedicated his Commentary on ANTIANEIRA ('Avriáveipa). 1. The mother
the Conica of Apollonius. A fragment of one of of the Argonaut Idmon by Apollo. (Orph. Ary.
his mathematical works was published at Paris, 187. ) The scholiast on Apollonius Rhodius (i.
4to. by M. Dupuy, 1777, with the title “ Frag- 139), however, calls Asteria the mother of Idmon.
ment d'un Ouvrage Grec d'Anthemius sur des 2. A daughter of Menelaus, and mother of the
* Paradoxes de Mécanique ;'_revu et corrigé sur Argonauts Eurytus and Echiones, whom she bore
quatre Manuscrits, avec une Traduction Françoise to Hermes. (Apollon. Rhod. i. 56 ; Hygin. Fale
et des Notes. ” It is also to be found in the forts- | 14. )
[L. S. )
second volume of the Hist. de l'Acad. des Inscr. A'NTIAS, a cognomen of the Valeria Gens,
1786, pp. 72, 392–451.
(W. A. G. ] derived from the Roman colony of Antium.
ANTHERMUS, sculptor. [BUPALUS. ]
1. L. VALERIUS ANTIAS, was sent with five
ANTHES ("Avons), probably only another form ships in B. c. 215 to convey to Rome the Cartha-
of Anthas. It occurs in Stephanus Byzantius, ginian ambassadors, who bad been captured by the
who calls hin the founder of Anthane in Laconia ; Romans on their way to Philip of Macedonia
and in Plutarch (Quacst. Gr. 19) who says, that (Liv, xxiii. 34. )
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ANTICLEIDES.
18. 5
ANTIGENES.
2. Q. VALERIUS ANTIAS, the Roman historian, 3. 'E{Nyntikos, appears to have been a sort of
was either a descendant of the preceding, or de Dictionary, in which perhaps an explanation of
rived the surname of Antias from his being a those words and phrases was given which occurred
native of Antium, as Pliny states. (H. N. Praef. ) in the ancient stories. (Athen. xi. p. 473, b. c. ) 4.
lle was a contemporary of Quadrigarius, Sisenna, nepl 'Anetávopov, which the second book is
and Rutilius (Vell
. Pat. ii. 9), and lived in the quoted by Diogenes Laërtius. (viii. 11; comp. Plut.
former balf of the first century before Christ. Alex. loc. ) Whether these works were all written
Krause, without mentioning his authority, states by Anticleides of Athens, cannot be decided with
that Antias was praetor in 4. U. C. 676. (B. C. 68. ) certainty.
He wrote the history of Rome from the earliest ANTI'CRATES ('Artikpárns), a Spartan who,
period, relating the stories of Amulius, Rhea Silvia according to Dioscourides (ur. Plut. Ayes. 35),
and the like, down to the time of Sulla. The killed Epaminondas at the battle of Mantinein.
latter period must have been treated at much The descendants of Anticrates are said to have
greater length than the earlier, since he spoke of been called Maxaulwves by the Lacedaemonians,
the quaestorship of Ti. Gracchus (B. C. 137) as early on account of his having struck Epaminondas with
as in the twelfth book (or according to some read a maxaipa (Plut. l. c.
Homeric account, he was one of the wisest among At Cyrene, where Antenor according to some ac-
the elders at Troy, and received Menelaus and counts had settled after the destruction of Troy,
Odysseus into his house when they came to Troy the Antenoridae enjoyed heroic honours. (Pind.
as ambassadors. (n. iii. 146, &c. , 203, &c. ) He Pyth. v. 108. )
(L. S. )
also advised his fellow-citizens to restore Helen to ANTEROS. [Eros. ]
Menelaus. (II. vii. 348, &c. ) This is the sub- ANTEVORTA, also called PORRIMA or
stance of all that is said about him in the Homeric PRORSA (Ov. Fast. i. 633; Gell. xvi. 16), toge-
poems; but the suggestion contained therein, that ther with Postvorta, are described either as the
Antenor entertained a friendly disposition towards two sisters or companions of the Roman goddess
the Greeks, has been seized upon and exaggerated Carmenta. (Ov. l. c. ; Macrob. Sat. i. 7. ) It seems
by later writers. Before the Trojan war, he is to be clear, from the manner in which Macrobius
said to have been sent by Priam to Greece to claim speaks of Antevorta and Postvorta, that originally
the surrender of Hesione, who had been carried off they were only two attributes of the one goddess
by the Greeks; but this mission was not followed Carmenta, the former describing her knowledge of
by any favourable result. (Dares Phryg. 5. ) When the future and the latter that of the past, analogous
Menelaus and Odysseus came to Troy, they would to the two-headed Janus. But that in later times
have been killed by the sons of Priam, had it not Antevorta and Postvorta were regarded as two dis-
been for the protection which Antenor afforded them. tinct beings, companions of Carmenta, or as two
(Dict. Cret. i. 11. ). Just before the taking of Troy Carmentae, is expressly said by Varro (ap. Gell.
his friendship for the Greeks assumes the character I. c. ), Ovid, and Macrobius. According to Varro,
of treachery towards his own country; for when who also says, that they had two altars at Rome,
sent to Agamemnon to negotiate peace, he devised they were invoked by pregnant women, to avert
with bim and Odysseus a plan of delivering the the dangers of child-birth.
(L. S. ]
city, and even the palladium, into their hands. ANTHAEUS ('Aveaios) or Antaeus, a physi-
(Dict. Cret. iv. 22, v. 8 ; Serv. ad Aen. i. 246, 651, cian, whose ridiculous and superstitious remedy
ii. 15; Tzetzes, ad Lycophr. 339; Suidas, s. r. for hydrophobia is mentioned by Pliny. (H. N.
Faládiov. ) When Troy was plundered, the skin xxviii. 2. ) One of his prescriptions is preserved
of a panther was hung up at the door of Antenor's by Galen. (De Compos. Medicum. sc. Locos, iv. 8.
house, as a sign for the Greeks not to commit any vol. xii. p. 764. ) Nothing is known of the events
outrage upon it. (Schol. ad Pind. Pyth. v. 108; Paus. of his life, but, as Pliny mentions him, he must
x. 17 ; Sirab. xiii. p. 608. ) His history after this have lived some time in or before the first century
event is related differently. Dictys (v. 17; comp. after Christ.
(W. A. G. ]
Serv. ad Aen. ix. 264) states, that he founded a ANTHAS ('Avdás), a son of Poseidon and Al-
new kingdom at Troy upon and out of the rem- cyone, the daughter of Atlas. He was king of
nants of the old one; and according to others, he Troezen, and believed to have built the town of
embarked with Menelaus and Helen, was carried Antheia, and according to a Boeotian tradition, the
to Libya, and settled at Cyrene (Pind. Pyth. v. town of Anthedon also. Other accounts stated, that
110); or he went with the Heneti to Thrace, and Anthedon derived its name from a nymph Anthedon.
thence to the western coast of the Adriatic, where (Paus. ii. 30. § 7, &c. , ix. 22. & 5. ) [L. S. ]
the foundation of several towns is ascribed to him. ANTHEAS LI'NDIUS ("Avőeas ), a Greek
(Strab. l. c. ; Serv. ad Aen. i. 1; Liv. i. 1. ) An- poet, of Lindus in Rhodes, flourished about B. C.
tenor with his family and his house, on which the 596. He was one of the earliest eminent composers of
panther's skin was seen, was painted in the Lesche phallic songs, which he himself sung at the head of
at Delphi. (Paus. l. c. ),
(L. S. ) his phallophori. (Athen. x. p. 445. ) Hence he
ANTE'NOR ('Artrivwp), the son of Euphranor, is ranked by Athenaeus (1. c. ) as a comic poet, but
## p. 184 (#204) ############################################
184
ANTHES.
ANTIAS.
&
this is not precisely correct, since he lived before the island of Calnuria was originally called, after
the period when comedy assumed its proper form. him, Anthedonia.
(L. S. ]
It is well observed by Bode (Dram. Dichtkunst. ANTHEUS ('Avdets), the blooming, a surname
ii. p. 16), that Antheas, with his comus of phalio of Dionysus. (Paus. vii. 21. & 2. ) Anthius, a sur-
phori, stands in the same relation to comedy as name which Dionysus bore at Athens, is probably
Arion, with his dithyrambic chorus, to tragedy. only a different form for Antheus. (Paus. i. 31. 82. )
(See also Dict. of Ant. s. 1. Comoediu. ) (P. S. ) There are also two fabulous personages of this
ANTHEDON. (ANTHAS. ]
name. (Hygin. Fab. 157; Virg. Aen, i. 181, 510,
ANTHEIA ("Avdeia), the blooming, or the xii. 443. )
(L. S. )
friend of flowers, a surname of Hera, under which ANTHEUS, a Greek sculptor of considerable
she had a temple at Argos. Before this temple reputation, though not of first-rate excellence,
was the mound under which the women were bu- flourished about 180 B. C. (Plin. xxxiv. 19, where
ried who had come with Dionysus from the Aegean Antheus is a correction for the common reading
jslands, and had fallen in a contest with the Ar Antaeus. )
[P. S. )
gives and Perseus. (Paus. ii. 22. § 1.
) Antheia ANTHIANUS (ANTHUS? ), FURIUS, a
was used at Gnossus as a surname of Aphrodite. Roman jurisconsult, of uncertain date. He was
(Hesych. s. v. )
(L. S. ] probably not later than Severus Alexander. He
ANTHE’LII ('Avoňaoi daiuoves), certain di- wrote a work upon the Edict, which in the Floren-
vinities whose images stood before the doors of tine Index to the Digest is entitled méposéBIKTOV
houses, and were exposed to the sun, whence they Bubala 6te, but there are only three extracts
derived their name. (Aeschyl. Agam. 530; Lobeck, made from it in the Digest, and all of these are
ud Soph. Ajac. 805. )
[L. S. ]
taken from the first book. This has led many to
ANTHEMIUS, emperor of the West, remark hold that the compilers of the Digest possessed
able for his reign exhibiting the last effort of the only an imperfect copy of his work. (P. I. Besier,
Eastern empire to support the sinking fortunes of Diss. de Furio Anthiano, J. C. ejusque fragmentis,
the Western. He was the son of Procopius, and Lug. Bat. 1803. )
[J. T. G. )
son-in-law of the emperor Marcian, and on Ricimer A'NTHIMUS ('Avoluos), bishop of Trapezus
applying to the eastern emperor Leo for a successor in Pontus, was made patriarch of Constantinople
to Majorian in the west, he was in a. D. 467 by the influence of the empress Theodora (A. D.
named for the office, in which he was confirmed 535), and about the same time was drawn over to
at Rome. His daughter was married to Ricimer; the Eutychian heresy by Severus. Soon after his
but a quarrel arising between Anthemius and election to the patriarchate, Agapetus, the bishop
Ricimer, the latter acknowledged Olybrius as em- of Rome, came to Constantinople, and obtained
peror, and laid siege to Rome, which he took by from the emperor Justinian a sentence of deposi-
storm in 473. Anthemius perished in the assault
. tion against Anthimus, which was confirmed by a
His private life, which seems to have been good, synod held at Constantinople under Mennas, the
is given in the panegyric upon him by Sidonius successor of Anthimus. (A. D. 536 ; Novell. 42;
Apollonius, whom he patronized ; bis public life in Mansi, Nova Collect. Concil
. viii. pp. 821, 869,
Jornandes (cle Reb. Get. c. 45), Marcellinus (Chron. ), 1149-1158; Labbe, v. ; AGAPETL's. ) Some frag-
and Theophanes (p. 101). See Gibbon, Decline ments of the debate between Anthimus and Aga-
und Fall c. 36.
(A. P. S. ] petus in the presence of Justinian are preserved in
ANTHEMIUS ('Avoémios), an eminent mathe the Acts of the Councils.
[P. S. )
matician and architect, born at Tralles, in Lydia, ANTHIPPUS ("AVOITTOS), a Greek comic poet,
in the sixth century after Christ. His father's a play of whose is cited by Athenaeus (ix. p. 403),
name was Stephanus, who was a physician (Alex. where, however, we ought perhaps to read Avalir.
Trall. iv. 1, p. 198); one of his brothers was the *9. (ANAXIPPUS. )
(P. S. )
celebrated Alexander Trallianus; and Agathias ANTHUS ("Avoos), a son of Autonous and
mentions (Hisi. v. p. 149), that his three other Hippodameia, who was torn to pieces by the horses
brothers, Dioscorus, Metrodorus, and Olympius, of his father, and was metamorphosed into a bird
were each eminent in their several professions, which imitated the neighing of a horse, but always
He was one of the architects employed by the fled from the sight of a horse. (Anton. Lib. 1 ;
emperor Justinian in the building of the church of Plin. H. N. x. 57. )
(L. S. )
St. Sophia, A. D. 532 (Procop. in Combefis. Manip. A'NTIA GENS, of which the cognomens are
Rerum CPol. p. 284; Agath. Hist. v. p. 149, Briso and Restio, seems to have been of con-
&c. ; Du Cange, CPolis Christ. lib. ii. p. 11; siderable antiquity. The only person of this name,
Anselm. Bandur. ad Antiq. CPol. p. 77:2), and who has no cognomen, is Sp. ANTIUS.
to him Eutocius dedicated his Commentary on ANTIANEIRA ('Avriáveipa). 1. The mother
the Conica of Apollonius. A fragment of one of of the Argonaut Idmon by Apollo. (Orph. Ary.
his mathematical works was published at Paris, 187. ) The scholiast on Apollonius Rhodius (i.
4to. by M. Dupuy, 1777, with the title “ Frag- 139), however, calls Asteria the mother of Idmon.
ment d'un Ouvrage Grec d'Anthemius sur des 2. A daughter of Menelaus, and mother of the
* Paradoxes de Mécanique ;'_revu et corrigé sur Argonauts Eurytus and Echiones, whom she bore
quatre Manuscrits, avec une Traduction Françoise to Hermes. (Apollon. Rhod. i. 56 ; Hygin. Fale
et des Notes. ” It is also to be found in the forts- | 14. )
[L. S. )
second volume of the Hist. de l'Acad. des Inscr. A'NTIAS, a cognomen of the Valeria Gens,
1786, pp. 72, 392–451.
(W. A. G. ] derived from the Roman colony of Antium.
ANTHERMUS, sculptor. [BUPALUS. ]
1. L. VALERIUS ANTIAS, was sent with five
ANTHES ("Avons), probably only another form ships in B. c. 215 to convey to Rome the Cartha-
of Anthas. It occurs in Stephanus Byzantius, ginian ambassadors, who bad been captured by the
who calls hin the founder of Anthane in Laconia ; Romans on their way to Philip of Macedonia
and in Plutarch (Quacst. Gr. 19) who says, that (Liv, xxiii. 34. )
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ANTICLEIDES.
18. 5
ANTIGENES.
2. Q. VALERIUS ANTIAS, the Roman historian, 3. 'E{Nyntikos, appears to have been a sort of
was either a descendant of the preceding, or de Dictionary, in which perhaps an explanation of
rived the surname of Antias from his being a those words and phrases was given which occurred
native of Antium, as Pliny states. (H. N. Praef. ) in the ancient stories. (Athen. xi. p. 473, b. c. ) 4.
lle was a contemporary of Quadrigarius, Sisenna, nepl 'Anetávopov, which the second book is
and Rutilius (Vell
. Pat. ii. 9), and lived in the quoted by Diogenes Laërtius. (viii. 11; comp. Plut.
former balf of the first century before Christ. Alex. loc. ) Whether these works were all written
Krause, without mentioning his authority, states by Anticleides of Athens, cannot be decided with
that Antias was praetor in 4. U. C. 676. (B. C. 68. ) certainty.
He wrote the history of Rome from the earliest ANTI'CRATES ('Artikpárns), a Spartan who,
period, relating the stories of Amulius, Rhea Silvia according to Dioscourides (ur. Plut. Ayes. 35),
and the like, down to the time of Sulla. The killed Epaminondas at the battle of Mantinein.
latter period must have been treated at much The descendants of Anticrates are said to have
greater length than the earlier, since he spoke of been called Maxaulwves by the Lacedaemonians,
the quaestorship of Ti. Gracchus (B. C. 137) as early on account of his having struck Epaminondas with
as in the twelfth book (or according to some read a maxaipa (Plut. l. c.
