, of which the prescription is
embodied
in a Labbe; Catal.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a
c.
31, as his successor
Mithridates is mentioned as king of Commagene in
that year. (Plut. Ant. 61. )
ANTI'OCHUS II. ('Avrloxos), king of Com-
MAGENE, succeeded Mithridates I. , and was sum-
moned to Rome by Augustus and executed in B. C.
29, because he had caused the assassination of an
ambassador, whom his brother had sent to Rome.
Augustus gave the kingdom to Mithridates II. ,
who was then a boy, because his father had been
murdered by the king. (Dion Cass. lii. 43, liv. 9. ) ANTI'OCHUS ('Arrioxos), an EPIGRAMMATIC
ANTIOCHUS III. ( Avrloxos), king of Com- poet, one of whose epigrams is extant in the Greek
MAGENE, seems to have succeeded Mithridates II. Anthology. (xi. 412. )
[L. S. ]
We know nothing more of him than that he died ANTIOCHUS HÍERAX ('Artloxos 'lépat),
in A. D. 17. (Tac. Ann. ii. 42. ) Upon his death, so called from his grasping and ambitious character,
Commagene became a Roman province (Tac. Ann. was the younger son of Antiochus II. , king of
ii. 56), and remained so till A. D. 38, when Antio- Syria. On the death of his father in B. c. 246,
chus Epipbanes was appointed king by Caligula. Antiochus waged war upon his brother Seleucns
ANTIOCHUS IV. ('Avrioxos), king of Com- Callinicus, in order to obtain Asia Minor for him-
MAGENE, surnamed EPIPHANES ('Eripavńs), self as an independent kingdom. This war lasted
was apparently a son of Antiochus III. , and re- for many years, but Antiochus was at length en-
ceived his paternal dominion from Caligula in A. D. tirely defeated, chiefly through the efforts of Atta-
38, with a part of Cilicia bordering on the sea- lus, king of Pergamus, who drove him out of Asia
coast in addition. Caligula also gave him the Minor. Antiochus subsequently fled to Egypt,
whole amount of the revenues of Commagene dur- where he was killed by robbers in B. c. 227. He
ing the twenty years that it had been a Roman married a daughter of Zielas, king of Bithynin.
province. (Dion Čass. lix. 8; Suet. Cal. 16. ) He (Justin. xxvii. 2, 3; Polyaen. iv. 17; Plut. Mor.
lived on most intimate terms with Caligula, and p. 489, a. ; Euseb. Chron. Arm. pp. 346, 347;
he and Herod Agrippa are spoken of as the in- Clinton, F. H. iii. pp. 311, 312, 413. ) Apollo is
structors of the emperor in the art of tyranny. represented on the reverse of the annexed coin.
(Dion Cass. lix. 24. ) This friendship, however, (Eckhel, iii. p. 219. )
was not of very long continuance, for he was
subsequently deposed by Caligula and did not
obtain his kingdom again till the accession of
Claudius in A. D. 41. (Dion Cass. lx. 8. ) In A. D.
43 his son, also called Antiochus Epiphanes, was
betrothed to Drusilla, the daughter of Agrippa.
(Joseph. Ant. xix. 9. & 1. ) In A. D. 53 Antiochus
put down an insurrection of some barbarous tribes
in Cilicia, called Clitae. (Tac. Ann. xii. 55. ) In
A. D. 55 he received orders from Nero to levy
troops to make war against the Parthians, and in
the year 59 he served under Corbulo against Tiri-
dates, brother of the Parthian king Vologeses. (xiii.
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UNTI YOXOY
ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ
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ANTIOCHIUS.
195
ANTIOCIIUS.
a
ANTI’OCHUS, a JURIST, who was at the head | literature, he finally embraced the medical profes-
of the commission appointed to compile the Theo sion, not for the sake of gain, but merely that he
dosian Code. He was praefectus praetorio and might be useful to mankind. He spent some time
consul. In the 33rd Novell of Theodosius the in Asia Minor, where he exercised his profession
Younger (A. D. 444), he is spoken of as a person gratuitously, and used to endeavour to convert his
deceased, illustris memoriac Antiochus. He is con- patients to Christianity. He then went to Sardinia
founded by Jac. Godefroi, in the Prolegomena of during the persecution against the Christians un-
his edition of the Theodosian Code (c. 1. & 5) with der Hadrian, about a. D. 120, where he is said to
two other persons of the same name; Antiochus, have been cruelly tortured, and at last miraculously
mentioned by Marcellinus as living in the year delivered by being taken up into heaven. His
448, and Antiochus, the eunuch, who was pruepa memory is celebrated by the Romish church on
situs sancti cubiculi. This error was pointed out the 13th of December.
by Ritter in the 6th volume of his edition of the 3. The other was born at Sebaste in Armenia,
Theodosian Code, p. 6.
(J. T. G. ] and was put to death during the persecution under
ANTI'OCHUS ('Artioxos), of Laodicea, a Diocletian, A. D. 303–311. He is said to have
sceptic philosopher, and a disciple of Zeuxis, men- been tortured, and thrown to the wild beasts,
tioned by Diogenes Laërtius. (ix. 106,116. ) (L. S. ] and, when these refused to touch him, at last
ANTIOCHUS ('Avrloxos), a MONK of the beheaded ; it is added that milk, instead of blood,
monastery of St. Saba, near Jerusalem, flourished issued from his neck, upon which the executioner
at the time of the taking of Jerusalem by the Per- immediately professed himself to be a Christian,
sians. (A. D. 614. ) He wrote, besides other works and accordingly suffered martyrdom with him.
of little importance, one entitled tavoÉKTTIS Tñs His memory is celebrated by the Greek and Rom
áyias ypaons, an epitome of the Christian faith, as mish churches on the 15th of July. (Martyrolo-
contained in scripture, in 130 chapters. This work gium Romanum; Bzovius, Nomenclator Sanctorum
was first published in Latin by Tilman, Paris, Professione Medicorum ; Acta Sanctorum, Jul. 15,
1543, 8vo. , reprinted in the Bibliotheca Patrum, vol. iv. p. 25; Clementis, Menologium Graecorum,
Paris, 1579; Colon. 1618; Lugd. 1677. The ori- vol. iji. p. 168; Fabricius, Biblioth. Graeca, vol.
ginal Greek was first published by Fronto Ducaeus, xiii. p. 64, ed. vet. )
(W. A. G. )
in the Auctarü Bibl. Patr. Paris, 1624, reprinted ANTI'OCHUS ('Avrloxos), bishop of PTOLE-
in Morell's Bill. Patr. Paris, 1644. A considera- maïs in Palestine, was a Syrian by birth. At the
ble fragment of it is printed in Fabricius' Bill. beginning of the 6th century after Christ, he went
Graec. x. p. 501.
[P. S. ] to Constantinople, where his eloquent preaching
ANTIOCHUS PA'CCIUS. [Paccius AN- attracted such attention, that he was called by
TIOCHUS. )
some another Chrysostom. He afterwards took
ANTI'OCHUS PHILOMETOR ($ountop) part warmly with the enemies of Chrysosto and
is supposed by some persons to have been a physi- | died not later than 408 A. D.
Besides many ser-
cian, or druggist, who must have lived in or before mons, he left a large work “ against Avarice,"
the second century after Christ; he is the in- which is lost. (Gennad. 20; Theodoret. Dial. ii. ;
ventor of an antidote against poisonous reptiles, Phot. Cod. 288 ; Act. Concil. Ephes. iii. p. 118,
&c.
, of which the prescription is embodied in a Labbe; Catal. Codd. Vindobon. pt. i. p. 116, No.
short Greek elegiac poem.
The poem is insert- 58. )
[P. S. )
ed by Galen in one of his works (De Antid. ï. ÁNTI'OCHUS ('Artióxos), Athenian
14, 17, vol. xiv. pp. 185, 201), but nothing is SCULPTOR, whose name is inscribed on his statue
known of the history of the author. Others sup of Athene in the Villa Ludovisi at Rome. (Winc-
pose that a physician of this name is not the author kelmann's Werke, iv. 375, vi. 252, ed. 1829. ) (P. S. )
either of the poem or the antidote, but that they ANTI'OCHUS ('Artloxos), the father of SE-
are connected in some way with the Theriaca which LEUCUS Nicator, the king of Syria, and the grand-
Antiochus the Great, king of Syria, was in the father of Antiochus Soter, was one of Philip's
habit of using, and the prescription for which he generals. (Justin, xv. 4. ) A genealogical table of
dedicated in verse to Aesculapius (Plin. H. N. xx. his descendants is given under SELEUCIDAE.
cap. ult. ) or Apollo. (Plin. Valer. De Re Med. iv. ANTI'OCHUS ('Avrloxos), of SYRACUSE, a
38. ) (See Cagnati Variae Observat. ii. 25, p. 174, son of Xenophanes, is called by Dionysius of Hali-
ed. Rom. 1587. )
(W. A. G. ) carnassus (Ant. Rom. i. 12) a very ancient histo-
ANTI'OCHUS ('Artloxos). 1. A PHYSICIAN, rian. He lived about the year B. C. 423, and was
who appears to have lived at Rome in the second thus a contemporary of Thucydides and the Pelo-
century after Christ. Galen gives a precise account ponnesian war. (Joseph. c. A pion. i. 3. ) Respect-
(De Sanit
. Tuenda, v. 5, vol. vi. p. 332) of the ing his life nothing is known, but his historical
food he used to eat and the way in which he works were held in very high esteem by the an-
lived ; and tells us that, by paying attention to his cients on account of their accuracy. (Dionys. i. 73. )
diet, &c. , he was able to dispense with the use of His two works were: 1. A history of Sicily, in
medicines, and when upwards of eighty years old nine books, from the reign of king Cocalus, i. e.
used to visit his patients on foot. A ëtius (tetrab. from the earliest times down to the year B. C. 424
i. serm. iii. c. 114. p. 132) and Paulus Aegineta or 425. (Diod. xii. 71. ) It is referred to by Pau-
(vii. 8, p. 290) quote a prescription which may sanias (x. 11. § 3), Clemens of Alexandria (Pro-
perhaps belong to this physician, but he is pro- trept. p. 22), and Theodoret. (P. 115. ). – 2. A
bably not the person mentioned by Galen under the history of Italy, which is very frequently referred
Antiochus Philometor. "
to by Strabo (v. p. 242, vi. pp. 252, 254, 255,
2. The name of two physicians, saints and 257, 262, 264, 265, 278), by Dionysius (U. cc. ,
martyrs, the first of whom was born of an eques and i. 22, 35; comp. Steph. Byz. s. 0. BpéTTIOS;
trian family in Mauritania. After devoting Hesych. s. v. Xuvnu ; Niebuhr, Hist. of Rome, i.
some years to the study of sacred and profane p. 14, &c. The fragments of Antiochus are con-
an
name
02
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196
ANTIOCHUS.
ANTIOCIIUS.
AXOILNV
BASIERE
tained in C. et T. Müller, Fragm. llistor. Graec. | condition of his putting away his former wife
Paris, 1841, pp. 181–184. )
(L. S. ] Laodice and marrying Berenice, a daughter of
ANTI'OCHUS I. ('Avtíoxos), king of Syria, Ptolemy. This connexion between Syria and
surnamed SOTER (Ewtúp), was the son of Seleucus Egypt is referred to in the book of Daniel (xi. 6),
Nicator and a Persian lady, Apama. The mar- where by the king of the south we are to under-
riage of his father with Apama was one of those stand Egypt, and by the king of the north, Syria,
marriages which Alexander celebrated at Susa in on the death of Ptolemy two years afterwards
B. C. 325, when he gave Persian wives to his ge- Antiochus recalled Laodice, but she could not for-
nerals. This would fix the birth of Antiochus give the insult that had been shewn her, and, still
about B. C. 324. He was present with his father mistrusting Antiochus, caused him to be murdered
at the battle of Ipsus in B. c. 301, which secured as well as Berenice and her son. Antiochus was
for Seleucus the government of Asia. It is related killed in B. C. 246, after a reig of fifteen years.
of Antiochus, that he fell sick through love of By Laodice he had four children, Seleucus Callini-
Stratonice, the young wife of his father, and the cus, who succeeded him, Antiochus Hierax, a
daughter of Demetrius Poliorcetes, and that when daughter, Stratonice, married to Mithridates, and
his father learnt the cause of his illness through another daughter married to Ariarathes. Phy-
his physician Erasistratus, he resigned Stratonice larchus related (Athen. x. p. 438), that Antiochus
to him, and gave him the government of Upper was much given to wine. (Appian, Syr. 65;
Asia with the title of king. On the murder of his Athen. ii. p. 45; Justin, xxvii. l; Polyaen. viii.
father in Macedonia in B. c. 280, Antiochus suc- 50 ; Val. Max. ix. 14. § 1, extern. ; Hieronym. ad
ceeded to the whole of his dominions, and prose- Dan. c. 11. ) On the reverse of the coin annexed,
cuted his claims to the throne of Macedonia against Hercules is represented with his club in his hand.
Antigonus Gonatas, but eventually allowed the (Eckhel, iji. p. 218. )
latter to retain possession of Macedonia on his
marrying Phila, the daughter of Seleucus and
Stratonice. The rest of Antiochus' reign was chiefly
occupied in wars with the Gauls, who had invaded
Asia Minor. By the help of his elephants he gained
a victory over the Gauls, and received in consequence
the surname of Soter (Ewtúp). He was afterwards
defeated by Eumenes near Sardis, and was sub-
sequently killed in a second battle with the Gauls
(B. C. 261), after a reign of nineteen years. By
his wife Stratonice Antiochus had three children:
Antiochus Theos, who succeeded him ; A pama,
married to Magas; and Stratonice, married to
COIN OF ANTIOCHUS II.
Demetrius II. of Macedonia. (Appian, Syr. 59-65; ANTI'OCHUS III. ('Avrloxos), king of Syria,
Justin, xvii. 2: Plut. Demetr. 38, 39; Strab. xiii
. surnamed the Great (Méyas), was the son of
p. 623; Paus i. 7; Julian, Misopog. p.
Mithridates is mentioned as king of Commagene in
that year. (Plut. Ant. 61. )
ANTI'OCHUS II. ('Avrloxos), king of Com-
MAGENE, succeeded Mithridates I. , and was sum-
moned to Rome by Augustus and executed in B. C.
29, because he had caused the assassination of an
ambassador, whom his brother had sent to Rome.
Augustus gave the kingdom to Mithridates II. ,
who was then a boy, because his father had been
murdered by the king. (Dion Cass. lii. 43, liv. 9. ) ANTI'OCHUS ('Arrioxos), an EPIGRAMMATIC
ANTIOCHUS III. ( Avrloxos), king of Com- poet, one of whose epigrams is extant in the Greek
MAGENE, seems to have succeeded Mithridates II. Anthology. (xi. 412. )
[L. S. ]
We know nothing more of him than that he died ANTIOCHUS HÍERAX ('Artloxos 'lépat),
in A. D. 17. (Tac. Ann. ii. 42. ) Upon his death, so called from his grasping and ambitious character,
Commagene became a Roman province (Tac. Ann. was the younger son of Antiochus II. , king of
ii. 56), and remained so till A. D. 38, when Antio- Syria. On the death of his father in B. c. 246,
chus Epipbanes was appointed king by Caligula. Antiochus waged war upon his brother Seleucns
ANTIOCHUS IV. ('Avrioxos), king of Com- Callinicus, in order to obtain Asia Minor for him-
MAGENE, surnamed EPIPHANES ('Eripavńs), self as an independent kingdom. This war lasted
was apparently a son of Antiochus III. , and re- for many years, but Antiochus was at length en-
ceived his paternal dominion from Caligula in A. D. tirely defeated, chiefly through the efforts of Atta-
38, with a part of Cilicia bordering on the sea- lus, king of Pergamus, who drove him out of Asia
coast in addition. Caligula also gave him the Minor. Antiochus subsequently fled to Egypt,
whole amount of the revenues of Commagene dur- where he was killed by robbers in B. c. 227. He
ing the twenty years that it had been a Roman married a daughter of Zielas, king of Bithynin.
province. (Dion Čass. lix. 8; Suet. Cal. 16. ) He (Justin. xxvii. 2, 3; Polyaen. iv. 17; Plut. Mor.
lived on most intimate terms with Caligula, and p. 489, a. ; Euseb. Chron. Arm. pp. 346, 347;
he and Herod Agrippa are spoken of as the in- Clinton, F. H. iii. pp. 311, 312, 413. ) Apollo is
structors of the emperor in the art of tyranny. represented on the reverse of the annexed coin.
(Dion Cass. lix. 24. ) This friendship, however, (Eckhel, iii. p. 219. )
was not of very long continuance, for he was
subsequently deposed by Caligula and did not
obtain his kingdom again till the accession of
Claudius in A. D. 41. (Dion Cass. lx. 8. ) In A. D.
43 his son, also called Antiochus Epiphanes, was
betrothed to Drusilla, the daughter of Agrippa.
(Joseph. Ant. xix. 9. & 1. ) In A. D. 53 Antiochus
put down an insurrection of some barbarous tribes
in Cilicia, called Clitae. (Tac. Ann. xii. 55. ) In
A. D. 55 he received orders from Nero to levy
troops to make war against the Parthians, and in
the year 59 he served under Corbulo against Tiri-
dates, brother of the Parthian king Vologeses. (xiii.
COIN OF ANTIOCHUS HIENAX.
00. 000
UNTI YOXOY
ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ
## p. 195 (#215) ############################################
ANTIOCHIUS.
195
ANTIOCIIUS.
a
ANTI’OCHUS, a JURIST, who was at the head | literature, he finally embraced the medical profes-
of the commission appointed to compile the Theo sion, not for the sake of gain, but merely that he
dosian Code. He was praefectus praetorio and might be useful to mankind. He spent some time
consul. In the 33rd Novell of Theodosius the in Asia Minor, where he exercised his profession
Younger (A. D. 444), he is spoken of as a person gratuitously, and used to endeavour to convert his
deceased, illustris memoriac Antiochus. He is con- patients to Christianity. He then went to Sardinia
founded by Jac. Godefroi, in the Prolegomena of during the persecution against the Christians un-
his edition of the Theodosian Code (c. 1. & 5) with der Hadrian, about a. D. 120, where he is said to
two other persons of the same name; Antiochus, have been cruelly tortured, and at last miraculously
mentioned by Marcellinus as living in the year delivered by being taken up into heaven. His
448, and Antiochus, the eunuch, who was pruepa memory is celebrated by the Romish church on
situs sancti cubiculi. This error was pointed out the 13th of December.
by Ritter in the 6th volume of his edition of the 3. The other was born at Sebaste in Armenia,
Theodosian Code, p. 6.
(J. T. G. ] and was put to death during the persecution under
ANTI'OCHUS ('Artioxos), of Laodicea, a Diocletian, A. D. 303–311. He is said to have
sceptic philosopher, and a disciple of Zeuxis, men- been tortured, and thrown to the wild beasts,
tioned by Diogenes Laërtius. (ix. 106,116. ) (L. S. ] and, when these refused to touch him, at last
ANTIOCHUS ('Avrloxos), a MONK of the beheaded ; it is added that milk, instead of blood,
monastery of St. Saba, near Jerusalem, flourished issued from his neck, upon which the executioner
at the time of the taking of Jerusalem by the Per- immediately professed himself to be a Christian,
sians. (A. D. 614. ) He wrote, besides other works and accordingly suffered martyrdom with him.
of little importance, one entitled tavoÉKTTIS Tñs His memory is celebrated by the Greek and Rom
áyias ypaons, an epitome of the Christian faith, as mish churches on the 15th of July. (Martyrolo-
contained in scripture, in 130 chapters. This work gium Romanum; Bzovius, Nomenclator Sanctorum
was first published in Latin by Tilman, Paris, Professione Medicorum ; Acta Sanctorum, Jul. 15,
1543, 8vo. , reprinted in the Bibliotheca Patrum, vol. iv. p. 25; Clementis, Menologium Graecorum,
Paris, 1579; Colon. 1618; Lugd. 1677. The ori- vol. iji. p. 168; Fabricius, Biblioth. Graeca, vol.
ginal Greek was first published by Fronto Ducaeus, xiii. p. 64, ed. vet. )
(W. A. G. )
in the Auctarü Bibl. Patr. Paris, 1624, reprinted ANTI'OCHUS ('Avrloxos), bishop of PTOLE-
in Morell's Bill. Patr. Paris, 1644. A considera- maïs in Palestine, was a Syrian by birth. At the
ble fragment of it is printed in Fabricius' Bill. beginning of the 6th century after Christ, he went
Graec. x. p. 501.
[P. S. ] to Constantinople, where his eloquent preaching
ANTIOCHUS PA'CCIUS. [Paccius AN- attracted such attention, that he was called by
TIOCHUS. )
some another Chrysostom. He afterwards took
ANTI'OCHUS PHILOMETOR ($ountop) part warmly with the enemies of Chrysosto and
is supposed by some persons to have been a physi- | died not later than 408 A. D.
Besides many ser-
cian, or druggist, who must have lived in or before mons, he left a large work “ against Avarice,"
the second century after Christ; he is the in- which is lost. (Gennad. 20; Theodoret. Dial. ii. ;
ventor of an antidote against poisonous reptiles, Phot. Cod. 288 ; Act. Concil. Ephes. iii. p. 118,
&c.
, of which the prescription is embodied in a Labbe; Catal. Codd. Vindobon. pt. i. p. 116, No.
short Greek elegiac poem.
The poem is insert- 58. )
[P. S. )
ed by Galen in one of his works (De Antid. ï. ÁNTI'OCHUS ('Artióxos), Athenian
14, 17, vol. xiv. pp. 185, 201), but nothing is SCULPTOR, whose name is inscribed on his statue
known of the history of the author. Others sup of Athene in the Villa Ludovisi at Rome. (Winc-
pose that a physician of this name is not the author kelmann's Werke, iv. 375, vi. 252, ed. 1829. ) (P. S. )
either of the poem or the antidote, but that they ANTI'OCHUS ('Artloxos), the father of SE-
are connected in some way with the Theriaca which LEUCUS Nicator, the king of Syria, and the grand-
Antiochus the Great, king of Syria, was in the father of Antiochus Soter, was one of Philip's
habit of using, and the prescription for which he generals. (Justin, xv. 4. ) A genealogical table of
dedicated in verse to Aesculapius (Plin. H. N. xx. his descendants is given under SELEUCIDAE.
cap. ult. ) or Apollo. (Plin. Valer. De Re Med. iv. ANTI'OCHUS ('Avrloxos), of SYRACUSE, a
38. ) (See Cagnati Variae Observat. ii. 25, p. 174, son of Xenophanes, is called by Dionysius of Hali-
ed. Rom. 1587. )
(W. A. G. ) carnassus (Ant. Rom. i. 12) a very ancient histo-
ANTI'OCHUS ('Artloxos). 1. A PHYSICIAN, rian. He lived about the year B. C. 423, and was
who appears to have lived at Rome in the second thus a contemporary of Thucydides and the Pelo-
century after Christ. Galen gives a precise account ponnesian war. (Joseph. c. A pion. i. 3. ) Respect-
(De Sanit
. Tuenda, v. 5, vol. vi. p. 332) of the ing his life nothing is known, but his historical
food he used to eat and the way in which he works were held in very high esteem by the an-
lived ; and tells us that, by paying attention to his cients on account of their accuracy. (Dionys. i. 73. )
diet, &c. , he was able to dispense with the use of His two works were: 1. A history of Sicily, in
medicines, and when upwards of eighty years old nine books, from the reign of king Cocalus, i. e.
used to visit his patients on foot. A ëtius (tetrab. from the earliest times down to the year B. C. 424
i. serm. iii. c. 114. p. 132) and Paulus Aegineta or 425. (Diod. xii. 71. ) It is referred to by Pau-
(vii. 8, p. 290) quote a prescription which may sanias (x. 11. § 3), Clemens of Alexandria (Pro-
perhaps belong to this physician, but he is pro- trept. p. 22), and Theodoret. (P. 115. ). – 2. A
bably not the person mentioned by Galen under the history of Italy, which is very frequently referred
Antiochus Philometor. "
to by Strabo (v. p. 242, vi. pp. 252, 254, 255,
2. The name of two physicians, saints and 257, 262, 264, 265, 278), by Dionysius (U. cc. ,
martyrs, the first of whom was born of an eques and i. 22, 35; comp. Steph. Byz. s. 0. BpéTTIOS;
trian family in Mauritania. After devoting Hesych. s. v. Xuvnu ; Niebuhr, Hist. of Rome, i.
some years to the study of sacred and profane p. 14, &c. The fragments of Antiochus are con-
an
name
02
## p. 196 (#216) ############################################
196
ANTIOCHUS.
ANTIOCIIUS.
AXOILNV
BASIERE
tained in C. et T. Müller, Fragm. llistor. Graec. | condition of his putting away his former wife
Paris, 1841, pp. 181–184. )
(L. S. ] Laodice and marrying Berenice, a daughter of
ANTI'OCHUS I. ('Avtíoxos), king of Syria, Ptolemy. This connexion between Syria and
surnamed SOTER (Ewtúp), was the son of Seleucus Egypt is referred to in the book of Daniel (xi. 6),
Nicator and a Persian lady, Apama. The mar- where by the king of the south we are to under-
riage of his father with Apama was one of those stand Egypt, and by the king of the north, Syria,
marriages which Alexander celebrated at Susa in on the death of Ptolemy two years afterwards
B. C. 325, when he gave Persian wives to his ge- Antiochus recalled Laodice, but she could not for-
nerals. This would fix the birth of Antiochus give the insult that had been shewn her, and, still
about B. C. 324. He was present with his father mistrusting Antiochus, caused him to be murdered
at the battle of Ipsus in B. c. 301, which secured as well as Berenice and her son. Antiochus was
for Seleucus the government of Asia. It is related killed in B. C. 246, after a reig of fifteen years.
of Antiochus, that he fell sick through love of By Laodice he had four children, Seleucus Callini-
Stratonice, the young wife of his father, and the cus, who succeeded him, Antiochus Hierax, a
daughter of Demetrius Poliorcetes, and that when daughter, Stratonice, married to Mithridates, and
his father learnt the cause of his illness through another daughter married to Ariarathes. Phy-
his physician Erasistratus, he resigned Stratonice larchus related (Athen. x. p. 438), that Antiochus
to him, and gave him the government of Upper was much given to wine. (Appian, Syr. 65;
Asia with the title of king. On the murder of his Athen. ii. p. 45; Justin, xxvii. l; Polyaen. viii.
father in Macedonia in B. c. 280, Antiochus suc- 50 ; Val. Max. ix. 14. § 1, extern. ; Hieronym. ad
ceeded to the whole of his dominions, and prose- Dan. c. 11. ) On the reverse of the coin annexed,
cuted his claims to the throne of Macedonia against Hercules is represented with his club in his hand.
Antigonus Gonatas, but eventually allowed the (Eckhel, iji. p. 218. )
latter to retain possession of Macedonia on his
marrying Phila, the daughter of Seleucus and
Stratonice. The rest of Antiochus' reign was chiefly
occupied in wars with the Gauls, who had invaded
Asia Minor. By the help of his elephants he gained
a victory over the Gauls, and received in consequence
the surname of Soter (Ewtúp). He was afterwards
defeated by Eumenes near Sardis, and was sub-
sequently killed in a second battle with the Gauls
(B. C. 261), after a reign of nineteen years. By
his wife Stratonice Antiochus had three children:
Antiochus Theos, who succeeded him ; A pama,
married to Magas; and Stratonice, married to
COIN OF ANTIOCHUS II.
Demetrius II. of Macedonia. (Appian, Syr. 59-65; ANTI'OCHUS III. ('Avrloxos), king of Syria,
Justin, xvii. 2: Plut. Demetr. 38, 39; Strab. xiii
. surnamed the Great (Méyas), was the son of
p. 623; Paus i. 7; Julian, Misopog. p.
