with Aretas, king
murder seems, from Diodorus, to have been owing of Arabia Petraea, by whom accordingly an unsuc-
to the instigation of Demetrius.
murder seems, from Diodorus, to have been owing of Arabia Petraea, by whom accordingly an unsuc-
to the instigation of Demetrius.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a
sub ann.
460.
) [P.
S.
] iv.
3.
) Returning now to Macedonia, he gave his
ANTIPATER ('Artlatpos), the father of daughter Phila in marriage to Craterus, with whom,
CASSANDER, was an officer in high favour with at the end of the year B. C. 323, he invaded the
Philip of Macedon (Just. ix. 4), who after his vic- Aetolians, the only party in the Lamian war who
tory at Chaeroneia, B. C. 338, selected him to con- had not yet submitted. (Diod. xviii. 24. ) But
duct to Athens the bones of the Athenians who the intelligence brought him by Antigonus of the
had fallen in the battle. (Just. I. c. ; Polyb. v. 10. ) treachery of Perdiccas, and of his intention of put-
He joined Parmenion in the ineffectual advice to ting away Nicaea, Antipater's daughter, to marry
Alexander the Great not to set out on his Asiatic Cleopatra, compelled him to pass over to Asia;
expedition till he had provided by marriage for where, leaving Craterus to act against Eumenes,
the succession to the throne (Diod xvii. 16); and, he himself hastened after Perdiccas, who was
on the king's departure, B. C. 334, he was left marching towards Egypt against Ptolemy. (Diod.
regent in Macedonia. (Diod. xvii. 17; Arr. Anal. xviii. 23, 25, 29-33; Plut. Eum. pp. 585, 586 ;
i. p. 12, a. ) In B. C. 331 Antipater suppressed Just. xiii. 6. ) On the murder of Perdiccas, the
the Thracian rebellion under Memnon (Diod. xvii. supreme regency devolved on Antipater, who, at
62), and also brought the war with the Spartans Triparadeisus in Syria, successfully maintained his
under Agis III. to a successful termination. (See power against Eurydice, the queen. Marching
p. 72, b. ) It is with reference to this event that into Lydia, he avoided a battle with Eumenes, and
we first find any intimation of Alexander's jealousy he on his side was dissuaded from attacking Anti-
of Antipater- a feeling which was not improbably pater by Cleopatra, who wished to give the regent
produced or fostered by the representations of no cause of complaint. Towards the close of the
Olympias, and perhaps by the known sentiments rear 321, he returned into Europe, taking with
of Antipater himself. (Curt. vi. 1. $ 17, &c. , 2. 10. him the king and queen, and leaving Antigonus to
$ 14; Plut. Ages. p. 604, b. , Alex. pp. 688, C. , prosecute the war with Eumenes. (Diod. xviii. 39,
705, f. ; Perizon, ad Ad. V. H. xii. 16; Thirlw. 40; Plut. Eum. p. 588, a. ) It was during the
Gr. Hist. vol
. vii. p. 89 ; but see Plut. Phoc. p. mortal illness of Antipater, B. c. 320, that Demades
749, e. ; Ael. V. H. i. 25. ) Whether, however, I was sent to him from Athens to endeavour to ob
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ANTIPATER.
ANTIPATER.
tain the removal of the garrison from Munychia | authority. It is manifest, however, from Cicero
and was put to death for his treacherous corres- and Val. Maximus, that he was fond of relating
pondence with Perdiccas. Antipater left the re- dreams and portents. Orelli (Onomast. Cic. ) refers
gency to Polysperchon, to the exclusion of his own to the dissertations on Antipater by Barius Ant.
son Cassander. (Plut. Phoc. p. 755, Dem. ad fin. ; Naula and G. Groen van Prinsterer, inserted in
Ant. ap. Phot. p. 70, a. ; Diod. xviu. 48. ) [E. E. ) | the Annals of the Academy of Leyden for 1821.
ANTIPATER (AVTín QT pos), second son of Ilis fragments, several of which are preserved in
CASSANDER, king of Macedonia, by Thessalonica Nonius, are to be found appended to the editions
sister of Alexander the Great. Soon after the of Sallust by Wasse, Corte, and Havercamp; and
death of Cassander (B. c. 296), his eldest son Phi- also in Kruse's Vitae et i'ragmenta vet. Histor.
lip also died of consumption (Paus. ix. 7; Plut. Rom. p. 182, &c.
(J. T. G. )
Demetr. 905, f. ), and great dissensions ensued be. ANTIPATER (Αντίπατρος), of CYRENE, one
tween Antipater and his younger brother Alexan- of the disciples of Aristippus, the founder of the
der for the government. Antipater, believing that Cyrenaic school of philosophy. (Diog. Laërt. ii.
Alexander was favoured by his mother, put her to 86. ) According to Cicero ( Tuscul
. v. 38) he was
death. The younger brother upon this applied for blind, but knew how to console himself by saying,
aid at once to Pyrrhus of Epeirus and Demetrius that darkness was not without its pleasures. [L. S. ]
Poliorcetes. Pyrrhus arrived first, and, exacting ANTIPATER ('Avriratpos), tyrant or prince
from Alexander a considerable portion of Macedonia of DERBE. Amyntas, the Lycaoniin chieftain,
as his reward, obliged Antipater to fly before him. murdered him and seized his principality. (AMYN-
According to Plutarch, Lysimachus, king of Thrace, Tas, No. 6. ] He was a friend of Cicero's, one
Antipater's father-in-law, attempted to dissuade of whose letters, of uncertain date, is addressed
Pyrrhus from further hostilities by a forged letter on his behalf to Q. Philippus, proconsul of the
purporting to come from Ptolemy Soter. The province of Asia, who was offended with Anti-
forgery was detected, but Pyrrhus seems notwith pater and held his sons in his power. (Strab. xii.
standing to have withdrawn after settling matters p. 392 ; Cic. ad Fam. xiii. 73. ) [E. E. )
between the brothers; soon after which Demetrius ANTI'PATER ('Artímatpos), father of HEROD
arrived. Justin, who says nothing of Pyrrhus, the Great, was, according to Josephus, the son of
tells us, that Lysimachus, fearing the interference a noble Idumaean of the same name, to whom the
of Demetrius, advised a reconciliation between government of Idumaea had been given by Alex-
Antipater and Alexander. On the murder of ander Jannaeus and his wife Alexandra, and at
Alexander by Demetrius, the latter appears, ac- their court the young Antipater was brought up.
cording to Plutarch, to have been made king of all the two other accounts which we have of his pa-
Macedonia, to the exclusion at once of Antipater. rentage appear to be false. (Joseph. Ant. xiv. 1. $ 3;
According to Justin, Lysimachus conciliated Deme Nicol. Damasc. ap. Joseph. l. c. ; African. ap. Euseb.
trius by putting him in possession of Antipater's Hist. Eccl. i. 6,7; Phot. Bild. n. 76, 238. ) In
portion of the kingdom, and murdered Antipater, B. C. 65, he persuaded Hyrcanus to take refuge
who appears to have fled to him for refuge. The from his brother Aristobulus II.
with Aretas, king
murder seems, from Diodorus, to have been owing of Arabia Petraea, by whom accordingly an unsuc-
to the instigation of Demetrius. (Plut. Pyrr. p. cessful attempt was made to replace Hyrcanus on
386, Demetr. pp. 905, 906; Just. xvi. 1, 2; Diod. the throne. (Ant. xiv. 2, Bell. Jud. i. 6. & 2. ) In
Sic. xxi. Exc. 7. )
[E. E. ) B. C. 64, Antipater again supported the cause of
ANTI'PATER, L. COELIUS, a Roman jurist this prince before Pompey in Coele-Syria (Ant.
and historian. Pomponius (Dig. 1. tit. 2. s. 2. & xiv. 3. $ 2. ) In the ensuing year, Jerusalem was
40) considers him more an orator than a jurist; taken by Pompey, and Aristobulus was deposed;
Cicero, on the other hand, prizes him more as a and henceforth we find Antipater both zealously
jurist than as an orator or historian. (De Or. ii. adhering to Hyrcanus, and labouring to ingratiate
12; de Legg. 1, 2; Brut. c. 26. ) He was a himself with the Romans. His services to the
contemporary of C. Gracchus (B. c. 123); L. latter, especially against Alexander son of Aristo-
Crassus, the orator, was his pupil. He was the bulus, and in Egypt against Archelaus (B. C. 57
first who endeavoured to impart to Roman his and 56), were favourably regarded by Scaurus and
tory the ornaments of style, and to make it Gabinius," the lieutenants of Pompey ; his active
more than a mere chronicle of events, but his dic- zeal under Mithridates of Pergamus in the Alex-
tion was rather vehement and high-sounding than andrian war (B. C. 48) was rewarded by Julius
elegant and polished. He is not to be confounded Caesar with the gift of Roman citizeriship; and,
with Coelius Sabinus, the Coelius of the Digest on Caesar's coming into Syria (B. C. 47), Hyrcanus
None of his juridical writings have been preserved. was confirmed by him in the high-priesthood,
He wrote a history of the second Punic war, and through Antipater's influence, notwithstanding the
composed Annales, which were epitomized by complaints of Antigonus son of Aristobulus, while
Brutus. (Cic. ad Att. xiii. 8. ) The history of the | Antipater himself was appointed procurator of
second Punic war was perhaps only a part of the Judaea. (Joseph. Ant. xiv. 5. $$ 1, 2, 6. SS 2-4, 8,
Annales. Antipater followed the Greek history of Bell. Jud. i. 8. $$ 1, 3, 7, 9. &$ 3-5. ) After Caesar
Silenus Calatiuus (Cic. de Div. i. 24, 49), and oc- had left Syria to go against Pharaces, Antipater
casionally borrowed from the Origines of Cato set himself to provide for the quiet settlement of
Censorius. (Gell. x. 24; Macrob. Saturn. i. 4, the country under the existing government, and
extr. ) The emperor Hadrian is reported to have appointed his sons Phasiëlus and Herod to be
preferred him as an historian to Sallust (Spartianus, governors respectively of Jerusalem and Galilee.
Hadrian. c. 16); by Valerius Maximus (i. 7) he (Joseph. Ant. xiv. 9. $$ 1,2, Bell. Jud. i. 10. $ 4. )
is designated certus Romanae historiae auctor; and His care for the peace and good order of the pro-
he is occasionally quoted by Livy, who soinetimes, vince was further shewn in B. C. 46, when he dis-
with respectful consideration, dissents from his / suaded llerod from his purpose of attacking Hyrca-
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203
ANTIPATER.
emperor had
nus in Jerusalem (HERODES), and again in B. C. 43 made him his private secretary.
The
(the year after Caesar's murder), by his regulations such a high opinion of him, that he raised him to
for the collection of the tax imposed on Judaea by the consular dignity, and afterwards made him
Cassius for the support of his troops. (Ant. xiv. . praefect of Bithynia. But as Antipater used his
§ 5, 11. § 2, Bell. Jud. i. 10. § 9, 11. & 2. ) To sword too freely, he was deprived of his office, and
the last-mentioned year his death is to be referred. retired to his native place, where he died at the
He was carried off by poison which Malichus, age of 68, it is said of voluntary starvation. Phi-
whose life he had twice saved [Malichus], bribed lostratus says, that he wrote a history of the life
the cup-bearer of Hyrcanus to administer to him. and exploits of the emperor Severus, but not a
(Ant. xiv. 11. SS 2-4, Bell. Jud. i. 11. $S 2-4. ) fragment of it is extant. (Philostr. Vit
. Soph. ii.
For his family, see Joseph. Ant. xiv. 7. & 3. (E. E. 24, 25. § 4, 26. $ 3; Galen, De Theriac. ad Pison.
ANTI'PATER ("Avrimatpos), the eldest son ii. p. 458; Eudoc. p. 57. )
(L. S. ]
of HEROD the Great by his first wife, Doris (Jos. ANTI'PATER, the name of at least two PHY-
Ant. xiv. 12. § 1), a monster of wickedness and SICIANS. 1. The author of a work Tepl Yuxñs,
craft, whose life is briefly described by Josephus * On the Soul," of which the second book is
(Bell. Jud. i 24. $ 1) in two words— Kaxias uvos quoted by the Scholiast on Homer (n. 1. 115. p.
thplov. Herod, having divorced Doris and married 306, ed. Bekker; Cramer, Anecd. Graeca Paris.
Mariamue, B. c. 38, banished Antipater from court vol. iii. p. 14), in which he said that the soul in-
(Bell. Jul. i. 22. $ 1), but recalled him afterwards, creased, diminished, and at last perished with the
in the hope of checking, by the presence of a rival, body; and which may very possibly be the work
the violence and resentment of Mariamne's sons, quoted by Diogenes Laërtius (vii. 157), and com-
Alexander and Aristobulus, who were exasperated monly attributed to Antipater of Tarsus. If he be
by their mother's death. Antipater now intrigued the physician who is said by Galen (De Meth. Alcd.
to bring his half-brothers under the suspicion of i. 7, vol
. x. p. 52; Introd. c. 4. vol. xiv. p. 684)
his father, and with such success, that Herod to have belonged to the sect of the Methodici, he
altered his intentions in their behalf, recalled Doris must have lived in or after the first century B. C. ;
to court, and sent Antipater to Rome, recommend and this date will agree very well with the fact of
ing bim to the favour of Augustus. (Jos. Ant. xvi. his being quoted by Andromachus (ap. Gal.
ANTIPATER ('Artlatpos), the father of daughter Phila in marriage to Craterus, with whom,
CASSANDER, was an officer in high favour with at the end of the year B. C. 323, he invaded the
Philip of Macedon (Just. ix. 4), who after his vic- Aetolians, the only party in the Lamian war who
tory at Chaeroneia, B. C. 338, selected him to con- had not yet submitted. (Diod. xviii. 24. ) But
duct to Athens the bones of the Athenians who the intelligence brought him by Antigonus of the
had fallen in the battle. (Just. I. c. ; Polyb. v. 10. ) treachery of Perdiccas, and of his intention of put-
He joined Parmenion in the ineffectual advice to ting away Nicaea, Antipater's daughter, to marry
Alexander the Great not to set out on his Asiatic Cleopatra, compelled him to pass over to Asia;
expedition till he had provided by marriage for where, leaving Craterus to act against Eumenes,
the succession to the throne (Diod xvii. 16); and, he himself hastened after Perdiccas, who was
on the king's departure, B. C. 334, he was left marching towards Egypt against Ptolemy. (Diod.
regent in Macedonia. (Diod. xvii. 17; Arr. Anal. xviii. 23, 25, 29-33; Plut. Eum. pp. 585, 586 ;
i. p. 12, a. ) In B. C. 331 Antipater suppressed Just. xiii. 6. ) On the murder of Perdiccas, the
the Thracian rebellion under Memnon (Diod. xvii. supreme regency devolved on Antipater, who, at
62), and also brought the war with the Spartans Triparadeisus in Syria, successfully maintained his
under Agis III. to a successful termination. (See power against Eurydice, the queen. Marching
p. 72, b. ) It is with reference to this event that into Lydia, he avoided a battle with Eumenes, and
we first find any intimation of Alexander's jealousy he on his side was dissuaded from attacking Anti-
of Antipater- a feeling which was not improbably pater by Cleopatra, who wished to give the regent
produced or fostered by the representations of no cause of complaint. Towards the close of the
Olympias, and perhaps by the known sentiments rear 321, he returned into Europe, taking with
of Antipater himself. (Curt. vi. 1. $ 17, &c. , 2. 10. him the king and queen, and leaving Antigonus to
$ 14; Plut. Ages. p. 604, b. , Alex. pp. 688, C. , prosecute the war with Eumenes. (Diod. xviii. 39,
705, f. ; Perizon, ad Ad. V. H. xii. 16; Thirlw. 40; Plut. Eum. p. 588, a. ) It was during the
Gr. Hist. vol
. vii. p. 89 ; but see Plut. Phoc. p. mortal illness of Antipater, B. c. 320, that Demades
749, e. ; Ael. V. H. i. 25. ) Whether, however, I was sent to him from Athens to endeavour to ob
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202
ANTIPATER.
ANTIPATER.
tain the removal of the garrison from Munychia | authority. It is manifest, however, from Cicero
and was put to death for his treacherous corres- and Val. Maximus, that he was fond of relating
pondence with Perdiccas. Antipater left the re- dreams and portents. Orelli (Onomast. Cic. ) refers
gency to Polysperchon, to the exclusion of his own to the dissertations on Antipater by Barius Ant.
son Cassander. (Plut. Phoc. p. 755, Dem. ad fin. ; Naula and G. Groen van Prinsterer, inserted in
Ant. ap. Phot. p. 70, a. ; Diod. xviu. 48. ) [E. E. ) | the Annals of the Academy of Leyden for 1821.
ANTIPATER (AVTín QT pos), second son of Ilis fragments, several of which are preserved in
CASSANDER, king of Macedonia, by Thessalonica Nonius, are to be found appended to the editions
sister of Alexander the Great. Soon after the of Sallust by Wasse, Corte, and Havercamp; and
death of Cassander (B. c. 296), his eldest son Phi- also in Kruse's Vitae et i'ragmenta vet. Histor.
lip also died of consumption (Paus. ix. 7; Plut. Rom. p. 182, &c.
(J. T. G. )
Demetr. 905, f. ), and great dissensions ensued be. ANTIPATER (Αντίπατρος), of CYRENE, one
tween Antipater and his younger brother Alexan- of the disciples of Aristippus, the founder of the
der for the government. Antipater, believing that Cyrenaic school of philosophy. (Diog. Laërt. ii.
Alexander was favoured by his mother, put her to 86. ) According to Cicero ( Tuscul
. v. 38) he was
death. The younger brother upon this applied for blind, but knew how to console himself by saying,
aid at once to Pyrrhus of Epeirus and Demetrius that darkness was not without its pleasures. [L. S. ]
Poliorcetes. Pyrrhus arrived first, and, exacting ANTIPATER ('Avriratpos), tyrant or prince
from Alexander a considerable portion of Macedonia of DERBE. Amyntas, the Lycaoniin chieftain,
as his reward, obliged Antipater to fly before him. murdered him and seized his principality. (AMYN-
According to Plutarch, Lysimachus, king of Thrace, Tas, No. 6. ] He was a friend of Cicero's, one
Antipater's father-in-law, attempted to dissuade of whose letters, of uncertain date, is addressed
Pyrrhus from further hostilities by a forged letter on his behalf to Q. Philippus, proconsul of the
purporting to come from Ptolemy Soter. The province of Asia, who was offended with Anti-
forgery was detected, but Pyrrhus seems notwith pater and held his sons in his power. (Strab. xii.
standing to have withdrawn after settling matters p. 392 ; Cic. ad Fam. xiii. 73. ) [E. E. )
between the brothers; soon after which Demetrius ANTI'PATER ('Artímatpos), father of HEROD
arrived. Justin, who says nothing of Pyrrhus, the Great, was, according to Josephus, the son of
tells us, that Lysimachus, fearing the interference a noble Idumaean of the same name, to whom the
of Demetrius, advised a reconciliation between government of Idumaea had been given by Alex-
Antipater and Alexander. On the murder of ander Jannaeus and his wife Alexandra, and at
Alexander by Demetrius, the latter appears, ac- their court the young Antipater was brought up.
cording to Plutarch, to have been made king of all the two other accounts which we have of his pa-
Macedonia, to the exclusion at once of Antipater. rentage appear to be false. (Joseph. Ant. xiv. 1. $ 3;
According to Justin, Lysimachus conciliated Deme Nicol. Damasc. ap. Joseph. l. c. ; African. ap. Euseb.
trius by putting him in possession of Antipater's Hist. Eccl. i. 6,7; Phot. Bild. n. 76, 238. ) In
portion of the kingdom, and murdered Antipater, B. C. 65, he persuaded Hyrcanus to take refuge
who appears to have fled to him for refuge. The from his brother Aristobulus II.
with Aretas, king
murder seems, from Diodorus, to have been owing of Arabia Petraea, by whom accordingly an unsuc-
to the instigation of Demetrius. (Plut. Pyrr. p. cessful attempt was made to replace Hyrcanus on
386, Demetr. pp. 905, 906; Just. xvi. 1, 2; Diod. the throne. (Ant. xiv. 2, Bell. Jud. i. 6. & 2. ) In
Sic. xxi. Exc. 7. )
[E. E. ) B. C. 64, Antipater again supported the cause of
ANTI'PATER, L. COELIUS, a Roman jurist this prince before Pompey in Coele-Syria (Ant.
and historian. Pomponius (Dig. 1. tit. 2. s. 2. & xiv. 3. $ 2. ) In the ensuing year, Jerusalem was
40) considers him more an orator than a jurist; taken by Pompey, and Aristobulus was deposed;
Cicero, on the other hand, prizes him more as a and henceforth we find Antipater both zealously
jurist than as an orator or historian. (De Or. ii. adhering to Hyrcanus, and labouring to ingratiate
12; de Legg. 1, 2; Brut. c. 26. ) He was a himself with the Romans. His services to the
contemporary of C. Gracchus (B. c. 123); L. latter, especially against Alexander son of Aristo-
Crassus, the orator, was his pupil. He was the bulus, and in Egypt against Archelaus (B. C. 57
first who endeavoured to impart to Roman his and 56), were favourably regarded by Scaurus and
tory the ornaments of style, and to make it Gabinius," the lieutenants of Pompey ; his active
more than a mere chronicle of events, but his dic- zeal under Mithridates of Pergamus in the Alex-
tion was rather vehement and high-sounding than andrian war (B. C. 48) was rewarded by Julius
elegant and polished. He is not to be confounded Caesar with the gift of Roman citizeriship; and,
with Coelius Sabinus, the Coelius of the Digest on Caesar's coming into Syria (B. C. 47), Hyrcanus
None of his juridical writings have been preserved. was confirmed by him in the high-priesthood,
He wrote a history of the second Punic war, and through Antipater's influence, notwithstanding the
composed Annales, which were epitomized by complaints of Antigonus son of Aristobulus, while
Brutus. (Cic. ad Att. xiii. 8. ) The history of the | Antipater himself was appointed procurator of
second Punic war was perhaps only a part of the Judaea. (Joseph. Ant. xiv. 5. $$ 1, 2, 6. SS 2-4, 8,
Annales. Antipater followed the Greek history of Bell. Jud. i. 8. $$ 1, 3, 7, 9. &$ 3-5. ) After Caesar
Silenus Calatiuus (Cic. de Div. i. 24, 49), and oc- had left Syria to go against Pharaces, Antipater
casionally borrowed from the Origines of Cato set himself to provide for the quiet settlement of
Censorius. (Gell. x. 24; Macrob. Saturn. i. 4, the country under the existing government, and
extr. ) The emperor Hadrian is reported to have appointed his sons Phasiëlus and Herod to be
preferred him as an historian to Sallust (Spartianus, governors respectively of Jerusalem and Galilee.
Hadrian. c. 16); by Valerius Maximus (i. 7) he (Joseph. Ant. xiv. 9. $$ 1,2, Bell. Jud. i. 10. $ 4. )
is designated certus Romanae historiae auctor; and His care for the peace and good order of the pro-
he is occasionally quoted by Livy, who soinetimes, vince was further shewn in B. C. 46, when he dis-
with respectful consideration, dissents from his / suaded llerod from his purpose of attacking Hyrca-
## p. 203 (#223) ############################################
ANTIPATER
203
ANTIPATER.
emperor had
nus in Jerusalem (HERODES), and again in B. C. 43 made him his private secretary.
The
(the year after Caesar's murder), by his regulations such a high opinion of him, that he raised him to
for the collection of the tax imposed on Judaea by the consular dignity, and afterwards made him
Cassius for the support of his troops. (Ant. xiv. . praefect of Bithynia. But as Antipater used his
§ 5, 11. § 2, Bell. Jud. i. 10. § 9, 11. & 2. ) To sword too freely, he was deprived of his office, and
the last-mentioned year his death is to be referred. retired to his native place, where he died at the
He was carried off by poison which Malichus, age of 68, it is said of voluntary starvation. Phi-
whose life he had twice saved [Malichus], bribed lostratus says, that he wrote a history of the life
the cup-bearer of Hyrcanus to administer to him. and exploits of the emperor Severus, but not a
(Ant. xiv. 11. SS 2-4, Bell. Jud. i. 11. $S 2-4. ) fragment of it is extant. (Philostr. Vit
. Soph. ii.
For his family, see Joseph. Ant. xiv. 7. & 3. (E. E. 24, 25. § 4, 26. $ 3; Galen, De Theriac. ad Pison.
ANTI'PATER ("Avrimatpos), the eldest son ii. p. 458; Eudoc. p. 57. )
(L. S. ]
of HEROD the Great by his first wife, Doris (Jos. ANTI'PATER, the name of at least two PHY-
Ant. xiv. 12. § 1), a monster of wickedness and SICIANS. 1. The author of a work Tepl Yuxñs,
craft, whose life is briefly described by Josephus * On the Soul," of which the second book is
(Bell. Jud. i 24. $ 1) in two words— Kaxias uvos quoted by the Scholiast on Homer (n. 1. 115. p.
thplov. Herod, having divorced Doris and married 306, ed. Bekker; Cramer, Anecd. Graeca Paris.
Mariamue, B. c. 38, banished Antipater from court vol. iii. p. 14), in which he said that the soul in-
(Bell. Jul. i. 22. $ 1), but recalled him afterwards, creased, diminished, and at last perished with the
in the hope of checking, by the presence of a rival, body; and which may very possibly be the work
the violence and resentment of Mariamne's sons, quoted by Diogenes Laërtius (vii. 157), and com-
Alexander and Aristobulus, who were exasperated monly attributed to Antipater of Tarsus. If he be
by their mother's death. Antipater now intrigued the physician who is said by Galen (De Meth. Alcd.
to bring his half-brothers under the suspicion of i. 7, vol
. x. p. 52; Introd. c. 4. vol. xiv. p. 684)
his father, and with such success, that Herod to have belonged to the sect of the Methodici, he
altered his intentions in their behalf, recalled Doris must have lived in or after the first century B. C. ;
to court, and sent Antipater to Rome, recommend and this date will agree very well with the fact of
ing bim to the favour of Augustus. (Jos. Ant. xvi. his being quoted by Andromachus (ap. Gal.
