Antioch, Antiochia

EPIPHANE, ANTI GONIA, PEOPOLIS, SELEUCIS, now ANTAKIA OF RIBLATH, a city of Syria, on the S. bank of the river Aaszy (Orontes), 57 m. W.of Aleppo. It is surrounded by walls, enclosing a space of several miles in circumference, now mostly occupied as gardens. The houses are built of stone, and have sloping roofs, a circumstance unusual in the East. On the whole, the general appearance of the place is dull and monotonous. Although there are upwards of a dozen mosques, it is said that there is not a single Christian church. The manufacture of silk is the principal branch of industry. A. was founded by An tigon us, and captured by Seleucus, who changed its situation, and called it Antioch, from his father, Antiochus. Long celebrated as one of the first cities of the East, it was the residence of the Maced on i an kings of Syria, and of the Roman gov IMG:content-0245.png:[graphic] Fig . 148. THE MODERN ANTIOCH. (Antakia.) The American Dictionary and Cyclopedia Antioch, in S. Carolina , a post-village of Kershaw co. Antioch, in Georgia , a post-village of Troup co., abt. 12 m. W. N. W. of La Grange. Antioch, in Illinois , a post-village and township of Lake co., abt. 50 m. N. W. by W. of Chicago. Antioch, in Indiana , a post-village of Switzerland co., on the Wabash river and canal. Antioch, in Ohio , a post-village of Monroe co., 128 m. E. of Columbus. Antioch, in Tenne ee , a post-village of Davidson co., on the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad, 9 m. S. E. of Nashville. Preria . Antiochus I., KING OF SYRIA, was the father of the famous Seleucus, q. v., by his wife Laodice. ANTIOCHUS II., SOTER, carried on many unsucce ful wars, and is chiefly known for his love of his stepmother, Str a to nice. Though he endeavored to subdue his pa ion, it threw him into a lingering sickne ; which continued till the king's physician, Eras i stratus, perceived the cause, and disclosed it to his father, who, thereupon, from love to his only son, gave him his young and beautiful bride in marriage. ANTIOCHUS III., THE GREAT, son of Seleucus Call in i- сиз, в. 238 в. с. Не вис- ceeded his brother, Se- leucus Cerannus, as king of Syria in 223. After succe ful wars against Ptolemy Philopater and the Parthians, he en- gaged in a contest with the Romans, for which, with the aid of Hannibal, he made great prepara- tions. He did not, how- ever, enter fully into the plans of this general, and sent only one army to Greece, which remained inactive, and was defeat- ed first at Thermopylae, and several times by sea, NES till at length he became so disheartened that he did not even contest with the Romans the pa age into Asia Minor, where they gained a victory at Magnesia, and obliged him to contract a dis- graceful peace. After- Fig . 149. TETRADRACHM, OR wards, attempting to take away the treasures from the temple of Jupi- Reverse Basileos Antiochou-two ter Elymais, he was monograms in field, and Apollo slain, with all his folseated on Cortina. ATTIC TALENT OF ANTIOCHUS III. lowers; B. C. 187. Head of the king. ANTIOCHUS IV., EPIPHANES, son of the preceding, after a captivity of many years at Rome, succeeded his brother Seleucus Philopater on the throne of Syria, B.c. 165. The principal events of his reign were a war with Egypt for the repo e ion of the provinces lost by his father, and his persecution of the Jews, which occasioned the insurrection of the Maccabees. For his cruelty and vices he received the name of Epimanes , or the "Madman." Д. в.с. 165.-Many other kings, under the name of A. , with various surnames, succeeded, till at last, A. Asiati cus was expelled from his dominions by Pоmреу, в. с. 65, and Syria became a Roman province. Anti'oco, a fertile island lying to the S.W. of Sardinia, in the Mediterranean, 8 m. long and 3 broad. Pop . 2,300. Antiodontal'gic, n. [Gr. anti , against, and odontal gia , the toothache.] ( Med . ) A remedy against the toothache. Anti'ope. ( Myth .) Daughter of Nycteus, king of Thebes (according to Homer, of the river Asopus), renowned through all Greece for her uncommon beauty. Epopeus, king of Sicyon, carried her off, and married her; but Lycus, the succe or of Nycteus, who had promised him to punish his daughter, slew Epopeus, and carried A. prisoner to Thebes, where he delivered her to his wife, Dirce, by whom she was treated with the greatest cruelty. She was fortunate enough to escape, and was avenged by Zethus and Amphion, her sons, whom she boasted to have conceived in the embraces of Jupiter. The rest of her history is told in a variety of ways. Antioquia, Santa Fé de, a town of Colombia, S. America. It is the principal town of a district trading in sugar and maize. Pop . (1895) 8,640.