Anti no us

, a youth of Bithynia, of whom the emperor Adrian was so extremely fond, that at his death he erected a temple to him, and wished it to be believed that he had been changed into a constellation. Some writers suppose that Anti no us was drowned in the Nile, while others maintain that he offered himself at a sacrifice as a victim, in honour of the emperor.――A native of Ithaca, son of Eupeithes, and one of Penelope’s suitors. He was brutal and cruel in his manners; and excited his companions to destroy Tele mach us, whose advice comforted his mother Penelope. When Uly es returned home he came to the palace in a beggar’s dre , and begged for bread, which Anti no us refused, and even struck him. After Uly es had discovered himself to Tele mach us and Eumæus, he attacked the suitors, who were ignorant who he was, and killed Anti no us among the first. Homer , Ody ey , bks. 1, 16, 17, & 22.— Pro pert i us , bk. 2 , poem 5, li. 7 .