A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. By various writers. Ed. by William Smith. Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.

ANTIOCHUS. ANTIOCHUS. 195
ANTIFOCHUS, a JURIST, who was at the head literature, he finally embraced the medical profesof the commission appointed to compile the Theo- sion, not for the sake of gain, but merely that he
dosian Code. He was praejfctus praetorio and might be useful to mankind. He spent some time
consul. In the 33rd Novell of Theodosius the in Asia Minor, where he exercised his profession
Younger (A. D. 444), he is spoken of as a person gratuitously, and used to endeavour to convert his
deceased, illustris memoriae Antiochus. He is con- patients to Christianity. He then went to Sardinia
founded by Jac. Godefroi, in the Prolegomena of during the persecution against the Christians unhis edition of the Theodosian Code (c. 1. ~ 5) with der Hadrian, about A. D. 120, where he is said to
two other persons of the same name; Antiochus, have been cruelly tortured, and at last miraculously
mentioned by Marcellinus as living in the year delivered by being taken up into heaven. His
448, and Antiochus, the eunuch, who was praepo- memory is celebrated by the Romish church on
situs sancti cubiculi. This error was pointed out the 13th of December.
by Ritter in the 6th volume of his edition of the 3. The other was born at Sebaste in Armenia,
Theodosian Code, p. 6. [J. T. G.] and was put to death during the persecution under
ANTI'OCHUS ('A'rioyos), of LAODICEA, a Diocletian, A. D. 303-311. He is said to have
sceptic philosopher, and a disciple of Zeuxis, men- been tortured, and thrown to the wild beasts,
tioned by Diogenes Laertius. (ix. 106,116.) [L. S.] and, when these refused to touch him, at last
ANTIOCHUS ('Avr'oXos), a AMONC. of the beheaded; it is added that milk, instead of blood,
monastery of St. Saba, near Jerusalem, flourished issued from his neck, upon which the executioner
at the time of the taking of Jerusalem by the Per- immediately professed himself to be a Christian,
sians. (A. D. 614.) He wrote, besides other works and accordingly suffered martyrdom with him.
of little importance, one entitled Traviicrys T-s His memory is celebrated by the Greek and Rodytas ypaops, an epitome of the Christian faith, as mish churches on the 15th of July. (Martyrolocontained in scripture, in 130 chapters. This work gium Romanum; Bzovius, Nomenclator Sanctorumn
was first published in Latin by Tilman, Paris, Professione Medicorum; Acta Sanctorum, Jul. 15,
1543, 8vo., reprinted in the Biblio/theca Patrunm, vol. iv. p. 25; Clementis, Menologium Graecorum,
Paris, 1579; Colon. 1618; Lugd. 1677. The ori- vol. iii. p. 168; Fabricius, Biblioth. Graeca, vol.
ginal Greek was first published by Fronto Ducaeus, xiii. p. 64, ed. vet.) [W. A. G.]
in the Auctarii Bibl. Patr. Paris, 1624, reprinted ANTI'OCHUS ('AyrXoXs), bishop of PTOLEin Morell's Bibl. Patr. Paris, 1644. A considera- MAis in Palestine, was a Syrian by birth. At the
ble fragment of it is printed in Fabricius' Bibl. beginning of the 5th century after Christ, he went
Graec. x. p. 501. [P. S.] to Constantinople, where his eloquent preaching
ANTI'OCHUS PA'CCIUS. [PAccIus AN- attracted such attention, that he was called by
TIOCHUS.] some another Chrysostom. He afterwards took
ANTI'OCHUS PHILOME'TOR (43iXoujrwp) part warmly with the enemies of Chrysostom, and
is supposed by some persons to have been a physi- died not later than 408 A. D. Besides many sercian, or druggist, who must have lived in or before mons, he left a large work "against Avarice,"
the second century after Christ; he is the in- which is lost. (Gennad. 20; Theodoret. Dial. ii.;
ventor of an antidote against poisonous reptiles, Phot. Cod. 288; Act. Concil. Eples. iii. p. 118,
&c., of which the prescription is embodied in a Labbe; Catal. Codd. Vindobon. pt. i. p. 116, No.
short Greek elegiac poem. The poem is insert- 58.) [P. S.]
sd by Galen in one of his works (De Antid. ii. ANTI'OCHUS ('Avrn'Xos), an Athenian
14, 17, vol. xiv. pp. 185, 201), but nothing is SCULPTOR, whose name is inscribed on his statue
known of the history of the author. Others sup- of Athene in the Villa Ludovisi at Rome. (Winceose that a physician of this name is not the author kelmann's Werke, iv. 375, vi. 252, ed. 1829.) [P.S.]
iither of the poem or the antidote, but that they ANTIOCHUS ('AvrioXos), the father of SEire connected in some way with the Theriaca which LEUCUS Nicator, the king of Syria, and the grandkntiochus the Great, king of Syria, was in the father of Antiochus Soter, was one of Philip's
labit of using, and the prescription for which he generals. (Justin, xv. 4.) A genealogical table of
ledicated in verse to Aesculapius (Plin. HI. N. xx. his descendants is given under SELEUCIDAE.:ap. ult.) or Apollo. (Plin. Valer. De Re Med. iv. ANTI'OCHUS ('AVn'oXose), of SYRACUSE, a
18.) (See Cagnati Variae Observat. ii. 25, p. 174, son of Xenophanes, is called by Dionysius of Halid. Rom. 1587.) [W. A. G.] carnassus (Ant. Reom. i. 12) a very ancient histoANTI'OCHUS ('AVrioXos). 1. A PHYSICIAN, rian. He lived about the year B. c. 423, and was
vho appears to have lived at Rome in the second thus a contemporary of Thucydides and the Peloentury after Christ. Galen gives a precise account ponnesian war. (Joseph. c. Apion. i. 3.) RespectDe Sanit. Tuenda, v. 5, vol. vi. p. 332) of the ing his life nothing is known, but his historical
)od he used to eat and the way in which he works were held in very high esteem by the anved; and tells us that, by paying attention to his cients on account of their accuracy. (Dionys. i. 73.)
iet, &c., he was able to dispense with the use of His two works were: 1. A history of Sicily, in
)edicines, and when upwards of eighty years old nine books, from the reign of king Cocalus, i. e.
sed to visit his patients on foot. Aetius (tetrab. from the earliest times down to the year B. c. 424
Sserm. iii. c. 114. p. 132) and Paulus Aegineta or 425. (Diod. xii. 71.) It is referred to by Pauvii. 8, p. 290) quote a prescription which may sanias (x. 11. ~ 3), Clemens of Alexandria (Proerhaps belong to this physician, but he is pro- trept. p. 22), and Theodoret. (P. 115.)-- 2. A
ably not the person mentioned by Galen under the history of Italy, which is very frequently referred
ame " Antiochus Philometor." to by Strabo (v. p. 242, vi. pp. 252, 254, 255,
2. The name of two physicians, saints and 257, 262, 264, 265, 278), by Dionysius (11. cc.,;artyrs, the first of whom was born of an eques- and i. 22, 35; comp. Steph. Byz. s. v. Bp'ros;
ian family in Mauritania. After devoting Hesych. s. v. XciWvv; Niebuhr, Hist. of Rome, i.
>me years to the study of sacred and profane p. 14, &c. The fragments of Antiochus are cono 2