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 ^48 ANTIPHKAE; connstent with this passage to look for Phellus north of AntipbeUus, than in anj other direction; and the ruins at Tdkoohoorbtfej north of Antiphel- lus, on the spnr of a mountain called FeUerdoffh^ seem to be those of Phellus. These ruins, which are not those of a large town, are described in i>pratt's Lycia, [G. L.] ANTIPHKAE (^Kvrttppcu, Strab. xru. p. 799; Eih. ' Ayrt^fMuos), a small inland town of the Libjae Nomos, not far &om the sea, and a little W. of Alexandria, celebrated for its poor ^ Libyan wine " which was drunk by the lower daases of Alexandria mixed with sea-water, and which seems to have been an inferior description of the ** Mareotic wine " of Virgil and Horace (^Georg. iL 91, Carm. i.37.14; comp. Ath. i. p. 33, Lucan. x. 160). [P. S.] ANirPOLIS CAyrliroKis: Elk. Antipolitanus: Aniibes)f a town in Gallia Narbonensis. D'AnviUe (^Notice^ &c.) observes that he believes that this town has preserved the name of AwtSbovl in the Proven9al idiom. It was founded by the Greeks of Massalia (^Marseille) in the country of the Dedates; and it was one of the settlements which Massalia established with a view of checking the Salyes and the Ligurians of the Alp9. (Strab. p. 180.) It was on- the maritime Boman road whidi nm along this coast. Antibes is on the sea, on the east side of a small peninsula a few mUes W. of the mouth of the Varus ( Var). It contains the remains of a theatre, and of some Roman constructions. Strabo states (p. 184), that though Antipolis was in Gallia Narbonensis, it was released from the jurisdiction of Massalia, and reckoned among the Italian towns, while Nicaea, which was east of the Vor and in Italy, still remained a dependency of Massalia. Tacitus {Hist. ii. 15) calls it a muni- cipium of Narbonensis Gallia, which gives us no exact* information. Pliny (iii. 4) calls it '* op- pidum Latinmn," by which he means that it hod the Jus Latium or Latinitas ; but the passage in Strabo has no precise meaning, unless we suppose that Antipolis had the Jus Italicum. Antipolis, however, is not mentioned with the two Gallic cities, Lugdunum and Vienna (Dig. 50. tit. 15. s. 8), which were Juris Italici ; and we may perhaps, though with some hesitation, take the statement of Pliny in preference to that of Strabo. There are coins of Antipolis. It seems to have had some tunny fisheries, and to have prepared a pickle (muria) for fish. (Plin. xxxL 8 ; Martial, xiii. 103.) [G. L.] ANTIQUA'RIA (Ant. lUn. p. 412 : ArUequera), a municipium of Hispania Bactica. Its name oc- curs in the form Anticaria in inscriptions, and there is a coin with the legend antik., the reference of which to this place Eckhel considers very doubt- ful. (Muratori, p. 1026, nos. 3, 4; Florez, 3/ec2L de Esp. vol. ii. p. 633 ; Eckhel, vol i. p. 14 ; Rasche, ANTrRRHIUM. [Aciiaia, p. 13, a.] ANTISSACAi^wto-o: Eth, *AjrrMr<ro?oy), a city of the island Lesbos, hear to Cape Sigrium, the western point of Lesbos (Steph. B. ». v. "AFTwro-o, following Strabo, p. 618). The place had a harbour. The ruins found by Pococke at Calat Limneonas, a little NE. of cape Sigri^ may be those of Antissa. This place was the birth-place of Terpander, who is said to be the inventor of the seven-stringed lyre. Antissa joined the Mytilenaeans in their revolt from Athens in the Peloponnesian war b. c. 428, ANTIUM. and successfully defended itself agunst the Ue- thymnaeans who attacked it; but after Mytiloa had been compelled to surrender to the Athenians, Antissa was recovered by them also (Thuc. iii. 18, 28). Antissa was destroyed by the Romans ailer the conquest of Perseus, king of Macedonia (b. g. 168), because the Antissaeans had received in their port and given supplies to Antenor, the admiral of Perseus. The people were removed to Metbjnom. (Liv. xlv. 31; Plin. v. 81.) Myrsilus (quoted by Strabo, p. 60) says, that Antissa was once an island, and iU. that time Lc:^ was called Issa; so that Antissa was named like many other places, Antiparos, Antiphellas, and others, with reference to the name of an opposite place. Pliny (ii. 89) places Antissa among the lands rescued from the sea, and joined to the main- land; and Ovid {Met. zv. 287), where he b speak- ing of the changes which the earth's sruface has undergone, tells Uie same stoiy. In another passa^ (v. 31), where he enumerates the ancient names of Lesbos, Pliny mentions Lasia, but not Issa. Lasia, however, may be a oorrupt word. Stephanas («. v. "latra) makes Issa a city of Lesbos. It is possible, then, that Antissa, when it was an island, maj have had its name from a place on the mainland of Lesbos opposite to it, and called Issa. [G. L.] ANTITAURUS. [Taurus.] A'NTIUM CAwoi', Strab. Dion. Hal. &c.: later Greek writers have "Ai^ior, Procop. Philortr.: Eth. Antias, -fttis), one of the most ancient and powerful cities of Latium, situated on a promootoiy or projecting angle of the sea-coast, at the distance of 260 stadia from Ostia (Strab. v. p. 232), and 38 miles frx)m Rome. It is still called Porto (TAmo. Tradition ascribed its foundation, in com- mon with that of Ardea and Tusculum, to a son of Ulysses and Circe (Xenag. ap. Dion. Hal. i. 72; Steph. B. s. v.), while others referred it to Ascanius (Solin. 2. § 16). It seems probable that it was one of those Latin cities in which the Pelasgian element preponderated, and that it owed its origin to that people. (Niebuhr, vol. i. p. 44.) In consequence of its advantageous maritime position the inhabit- ants seem early to have devoted themsdvea to commerce as well as ]uracy, and continued down to a late period to share in the piratical practices of their kindred cities on the coast of Etroria. (Strab. I c.) It seems doubtful whether, in early times, it belonged to the Latin League; Dionysios represents it as first joining that conifodexacy under Tarquinius Superbns (Dion. Hal. iv. 49), but he is certunly mistaken in representing it as then already a Volscian city. (See Niebidur, vol. ii. p. 108.) And though we find its name in the treaty concluded by the liomans with Carthage among the Latin cities which were subject to or dependent upon Rome (Pol. iii. 22), it does not appear in the list given by Dionysius of the thirty towns which, in b. c. 493, constituted the Latin League. (Dion. HaL v. 61.) That author, however, repre- sents it as sending assistance to the Latins before the battle of Regillus (vi. 3), and it was prob&biy at that time still a Latin city. But within a few years aftei-^ards it must have fallen into the hands of the Volscians, as we find it henceforth taking an active part in their wars against the Latins and Romans, until in the year b. c. 468 it was taken by the latter, who sought to secure it by sending thither a colony. (Liv. ii. 33, 63, 65, iii. 1 ; Dion. Hal. vi. 92, ix. 58, 59; Niebuhr, vol ii. pp. 246—
 * AyTi<ppa, Steph. B., PtoL ; 'AvT«^p«S, Hierocl. p. 734 :
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