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 347) speaks of the Aborras (Khabur) flowing around or about Anthemusia, and it seems that he must mean the region Anthemusia. Tacitus (Ann. vi. 41) gives the town what is probably its genuine Greek name, Anthemusias, for it was one of the Macedonian foundations in this country. According to Isidore of Charax, it lies between Edessa (Orfa) and the Euphrates, 4 schoeni from Edessa. There is another passage in Strabo in which he speaks of Anthemusia as a place (τόπος) in Mesopotamia, and he seems to place it near the Euphrates. In the notes to Harduin's Pliny (v. 24), a Roman brass coin of Anthemusia or Anthemus, as it was also called, is mentioned, of the time of Caracalla, with the epigraph Ανθεμουσίων.

 ANTHE'NE ('Ai^^^nj, Thnc; 'AvBdya, Steph. B. town m Cynuria, originally inhabited by the Aegi- netans, and mentioned by Thucydides along with Thyrea, as the two chief places in Gynuria. Modern travellers are not agreed respecting its site. (Thuc. T. 41; Paus. iii. 38. § 6; Harpocr. s.v.; Leake, Morea, vol. ii. p. 494; Boblaye, p. 69; Boss, Pela- poftneSy p. 163.) ANTHYLLA C^vBvXKa, Herod, ii. 97 ; 'Ar- rvAA.a, Athen. i. p. 33 ; Steph. B. $. v. : Eth. ^Kv- BvWcuos), was a considerable town upon the Ganobic branch of the Nile, a few miles SE. of Alexandreia. Its revenues were assigned by the Persian kings of Egypt to their queens, to provide them, Herodotus says, with sandals; Athenaeus says, with gmiles. From this usage, Anthylla is believed by some geo- graphers to be the same city as Gynaecopolis, which, however, was further to the south than Anthylla. (Mannert. Gtogr. der Gr. und Rom, vol. z. p. 596.) [Andropolis]. Athenaeus commends the wine of Anthylla as the best produced by Egyptian vine- yards. [W. B. D.] ANTICINOXIS. [GiNoufl, or Gimolis.] ANTIGIRRHA. fANTicTRA.] ANTI'GRAGUS. [Graous.] ANTI'GYRA CAyrUi^ Dicaearch., Strab., perhaps the most ancient form; next 'AyrUv^Pa, Eustath. adIL ii. 520; Ptol. iii. 15. § 4; and histly 'AKT^ffvpa, which the Latin writers use: Eth. 'Arri- KvptvSy ^KmiKvprnos). . {Aspra Spitia)j a town in Phods, situated on a peninsula (whidi Pliny and A. Gellius erroneously call an island), on a bay (Sinus Anticyranus) of the Gorinthian gulf. It owed its importance to the ex- cellence of its harbour on this sheltered gulf, and to its convenient situation for communications with the i ^'V, interior. (Dicaearch. 77; Strab. p. 418; Plin. xxv. •'^ 5. s. 21 ; Cell. xvii. Ip; Liv. xxxii. 18; Paus. x. 36. § 5, seq.) It is saia to have been originally called Gyparissus, a name which Homer mentions (//. ii. 519 ; Paus. /. c.) Like the other towns of Phocis it was destroyed by Philip of Macedon at the close of the Sacred War (Paus. x. 3. § 1, x. 36. § 6); but it soon recovered from its ruins. It was taken by the consul T. Fhunininus in the war with Philip B. c. 198, on accoimt of its convenient situation for military purposes (Liv. /. c.) It continued to be a place of importance in the time both of Strabo and of Pausanias, the latter of whom has described some of its public buildings. Anticyra was chiefly cele- brated for the production and preparation of the best hellebore in Greece, the chief remedy in antiquity for madness. Many persons came to reside at Anticyra for the sake of a more perfect cure. (Strab. /. c.) Hence the proverb ^Ayraci^as <r€ 8c7, and NavigetAnticyram^ when a person acted foolishly. (Hot. SA ii. 3. 83, 166; comp. Ov. e Pont. iv. 3. 53; Pen. it. 1 6 ; Juv. xiii. 97.) The hellebore grew in great qun- tities around the town : PausaniasmentioDS two kinds, of which the root of the black was used as a cathartic;, and that of the white as an emetic. (Strab. l e.; Paus. X. 36. § 7.) There are very few andent re- mains at Aipra Spiiiay but Leake discovered here an inscription oontainiog the name of Aiticyra. (Leake, Northern Greece^ vol. ii. p. 541, seq.) . A town in Thessaly in the district llalis at the mouth of the Spercheus. (Herod, vii. 198; Strab. ;; pp. 418, 434.) AcccMrding to Stephanas (<. v. 'Ar- ~ ' riKvpak) ISielbest hellebore wa^ grown at Uus place, and one of its dtizens exhibited the medidne to Heracles, when labouring under madness m thii ndghbourhood.^ . A town in Locris, which most modern oam- mentators identify with the Phodan Anticjfn. [No. 1.] Livy, however, expressly says (xxri. 26) that the Locrian Anticyra was situated on the left hand in entering the Gorinthian gulf^ and at a short distance both by sea and land from Naapactos; whereas the Phocian Anticyra was nearer the ex- tremity than the entrance of the Gorinthian golf, and was 60 miles distant from Nanpactos. More- over Strabo speaks of three Anticyrae, one inPhocis, a second on the Maliac gulf (p. 418), and a third in the country of the western Locri, or Locri OzoJae (p. 434). Horace, likewise, in a well-known passage (i4r« Poet. 300) speaks of three Anticyrae, and represents them all as produdng hellebore. (Leake, Ibid. p. 543.) ANTIGONELA. (^AvTiy6ptM, 'Aio-fyoiia, AnH- gonoa, Liv. : Eth. ^AvrtyoytuSy Antigonensis). 1. A town of Epirus in the district Ghaonia, on the Aous and near a narrow pass leading from myiia into Ghaonia. (Th wop* 'Ayrry^vcioy ortyh^ Pol. ii. 5, 6 ; ad Antigoneam fauces, Liv. xxxii. 5.) The town was in the hands of the Bovnans in thdr war with Perseus. (Liv. xliii. 23.) It is meutioned both by Plmy (iv. 1) and Ptolemy (iii. 14. § 7> . A town of Macedonia in the district Gmas in Ghalddice, placed by Livy between Aeneia and Pallene. (Liv. xliv. 10.) It b called by Ptolemy (iii. 13. § 38) Psaphara (Yo^opct) probably in order to distinguish it from Antigoneiain Paeonia. (Leake, Northern Greecej vol. iii. p. 460.) . A town of Macedonia in Paeonia, placed in the Tabular Itinerary between Stena and Stobi. (Scym- nus, 631 ; Plin. iv. 10 s. 17 ; Ptolem. iiL 13. § 36.) . The later name of Mantineia. [Mantiksia.] . A city in Syria on the Orontes, founded by Antigonus in b. c. 307, and intended to be the capital of his empire. After the battle of Ipsus, B.C. 301, in which Antigonus perished, the in^ habitants of Antigoneia were renwved by his sac- oessfiil rival Seleucus to the dty of Antioch, which the latter founded a little lower down the river. (Strab. xvi. p. 750; Diod. xx. 47; Liban. Antioch. p. 349; Malala, p. 256.) Diodorus erroneoosly says that the inhabitants were removed to Seleuoeia. Antigonda continued, however, to exist, and is men- tioned in the war with the Partisans after the defeat of Grassus. (Dion Gass. xl. 29.)
 * . r.; 'A^nj, Pans.: Eth. ^AyBav^s^ Steph. B.), a

6. An earlier name of Alexandreia Troas. [ Alex- ANDKEiA Troas, p. 102, b.]

7. An earlier name of Nicaea in Bithynia. [Ni- CAEA.]

 ANTILI´BANUS (: Jebel esh-Shŭrki), the eastern of the two great parallel ridges