Anti no us

[Lat. Anti no us; Gr. ̓Αντίνοος (Antinoos). (See Def. I.).] I. Cla ical Mythology & History : 1. One of the suitors of Penelope, Uly es' queen. 2. A beautiful Bithynian youth, a favourite of the Emperor Adrian. He was drowned in the Nile. It II. Astronomy: An old constellation called after the second of these notabilities. was one of the forty-eight recognised by the ancients, and is the only one of all that number which has been degraded from its pristine rank. It is now included under the Northern constellation Aquila. Ăn-ti-ô-chỉ-ạn (1), a . [From Antiochia , now Antakia, a celebrated city on the Orontes, in Syria, built by Antiochus or Seleucus.] Pertaining to Antioch, in Syria, or any other city of the same name. (Anciently there were several.) Chronol. The Anti och i an epoch was the date of the bestowal of liberty on the city of Antioch, just after the battle of Pharsalia. The Syrians dated it from 1st of October, В.С. 48; the Greeks from September, B.C. 49.