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mafs to the poor. The antidoron is alfo called pants pros- 
fanclijicatus. 
ANTIDO'SIS, f. in antiquity, denotes an exchange of 
eftates, praclifed by the Greeks on certain occafions with 
peculiar ceremonies, and firft inftituted by Solon. When 
a perfon was nominated to an office, the expence of which 
he was not able to fupport, he had recoilrfe to the anti- 
dolis; that is, he was to feek fome other citizen of better 
fubftance than himfelf, who was free from this and other 
offices; in which cafe the former was excufed. In cafe 
the perfon thus fubflituted denied himfelf to be the richeft, 
they were to exchange eftates, after this manner: the doors 
of their houles were clofe flint up and fealed, that nothing 
might be conveyed away ; then both took an oath to make 
a faithful difcovery of all tlieir effects, and within three 
days an exchange of eftates was made. 
ANTIDO'TAL, adj. That which has the quality of an 
antidote, or the power of counteracting poifon.—•Animals 
that can innoxioufly digelt thefe poifons, become antidotal 
to the poifon digefted. Brown. 
AN'TIDOTE,yi [ai/rnSolf^-, Gr. antidotus, Lat. a thing 
given in oppofition to fomething elfe.] A medicine given 
to expel the mifchiefs of another, as of poiion: 
Truft not the phyfician ; 
His antidotes are poifon, and he flays 
More than you rob. Shakefpeare. 
ANTIDYSENTE'RIC, adj. [from cent, Gr. againft, 
and dyfenteria, Lat. a bloody flux.] Good againft the bloody 
flux. 
AN'TIENT. See Ancient. 
ANTI-EPILEP'TICS,y. [from aili, againjl, 
Gr. the epilcpjy.'] Remedies againft an epilepfy and other 
convulftve diforders.—That bezoar is antidotal, lapis ju- 
daicus diuretical, coral antepileptical , we will not deny. 
Brown. 
ANTfFE'BRILE, adj. [from am, Gr. againft, and 
febris, Lat. a fever.] Good againft fevers.— Antifebrile me¬ 
dicines check the ebullition. F/cyer. 
ANTI'GONE, in fabulous hiftory, a daughter of Oedi¬ 
pus king of Thebes, by his mother Jocafta. She buried 
by night her brother Polynices, contrary to the orders of 
Creon, who, when he heard it, ordered her to be buried 
alive : fhe however ftrangled herfelf; and fEmon, who was 
to have married her, killed himfelf on her grave. Alfo 
a daughter of Laomedon, and After of Priam; who was 
changed into a ftork for comparing herfelf to Juno. 
ANTIGONE'A, or Antigo'nia, anciently a town of 
Bithynia, fo called from Antigonus, the fon of Philip, and 
afterwards called Niccea. Another of Epirus, to the north 
of the Montes Ceraunii, oppofite to the city of Oricum. 
A third of Arcadia, namely Mantinea, fo called in honour 
of king Antigonus. A fourth in Macedonia, in the ter¬ 
ritory of Mygdonia. A fifth in the territory of Chalci- 
dice, in Macedonia, on the eaft fide of the Sinus Ther- 
maicus. A fixth of Syria, built by Antigonus, not far 
from Antioch, on theOrontes; but foon after deftroyed 
by Seleucus, who removed the inhabitants to Seleucia. 
A feventh of Troas, called Alexandria in Pliny’s time. 
ANTI'GONUS, one of Alexander’s commanders, to 
whom Afia fell. He conquered Eumenes, and expelled 
Seleucus out of Syria; who flying to Ptolemy Lagus in 
Egypt, a bloody war commenced betwixt him, Callander, 
and Antigonus, wherein, by the help of his fon Deme¬ 
trius, Antigonus prevailed, and built the city Antigonia. 
Afterward Callander, Seleucus, and LyfimachuS, uniting, 
overthrew him, in league with king Pyrrhus, and fleiv him 
near Epirus, 301 years before Chrift. 
Antigonus, king of the Jews, was the fon of Arifto- 
bulus. He entered into an alliance with the king of the 
Parthians, and belieged Jerufalem. He cut off his uncle 
Hircanus’s ears, to incapacitate him for the high-prieft- 
hood; and put Jofephus, Herod’s brother, to death. At 
length, Herod took him and lent him to Marc Antony; 
who, to gratify Herod, cut off his head, and thereby ex- 
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tinguilhed the Afmonians, who had reigned 126 years. 
This happened 36 years before Chrift. 
ANTIGR A'PHUS, in antiquity, an officer of Athens, 
who kept a counterpart of the apodecli, or chief treafu- 
rer’s accounts, to prevent miftakes, and keep them from 
being falfified. 
Antigraphus, in middle-age writers, was a fecretary 
or chancellor. He is thus called, according to the old 
glolfarifts, on account of his writing anfwers to the letters 
lent to his mailer. The antigraphus is fometimes alio 
called archigraphus; and his dignity antigraphia, or atchi- 
graphia. 
Antigraphus' is alfo ufed in Ifidorus for one of the 
notes of lentences which is placed with a dot to denote a 
diverlity of fenfe in tranllations. 
Antigraphus, in ecclefiaftical writers, is an abbre- 
viator of the papal letters. In which fenfe the word is 
ufed by pope Gregory the Great in his regifter. Of late 
days the office-of antigraphus confifts in making minutes 
of bulls from the petitions agreed to by his holinefs, and 
renewing the bulls after engroliing. 
ANTI'GUA, one of the Antilles, or Caribbees, is fi- 
tuated about twenty leagues eaft of St. Chriftopher’s, in 
Ion. 62. 5. W. and lat. 17. 30. N. It is about fifty miles 
in circumference, and is reckoned the largeft of all the 
Britifti Leeward iflands. It is remarkable that it has nei¬ 
ther ftream nor fpring of frefli water; this inconvenience, 
which rendered it uninhabitable to the Caribbees, deterred 
for fome time Europeans from attempting a permanent 
eftablilhment upon it; but few, if any, are the obftacles 
of nature, which civilifed man will not overcome, more 
efpecially when intereft fpurs him on. The foil of An¬ 
tigua was found to be fertile, and it foon prefented itfelf 
to the view of enterprifmg genius, that by means of cif- 
terns the neceflity of fprings and ftreams might be fuper- 
feded. Hence, as early as 1632, a fon of Sir Thomas 
Warner, and a number of other Englifhmen, fettled here, 
and began the cultivation of tobacco. In 1674, colonel 
Codrington, of Barbadoes, removed to this illand, and 
fucceeded fo well in the culture of fugar, that, animated 
by his example, and aided by his experience, many others 
engaged in the fame line of bufinefs. Mr. Codrington 
dying in 1691, was fucceeded by his fon Chriftopher, who, 
purfuing his father’s fteps, held the government till 1704, 
when he was fuperfeded by Sir William Matthews, who 
died foon after his arrival. Queen Anne then bellowed 
the government on Daniel Park, Efq. a man who for de¬ 
bauchery, villany, defpotifm, though he may have been 
equalled, was certainly never excelled. His government 
lulled till December 1710, when his oppreffions roufed 
the inhabitants to refinance: he was feized by the enraged 
multitude and torn to pieces, and his reeking limbs Mat¬ 
tered about the ftreets. An inquiry was inftituted with 
refipeft to the perpetration of this acd; the people of Eng¬ 
land were divided, fome looking upon his death as an aft 
of rebellion, others viewing it as a juft facrifice to liberty. 
The government, however, after a full enquiry, were fo 
fully fatisfied of Park’s guilty and illegal conduct, that, 
much to their honour, they ilfued a general pardon for all 
perfons concerned in his death. 
The principal article produced in this illand is fugar; 
belides which, cotton-wool and tobacco is raifed in confi- 
derable quantities, and likewife provifions to a co'nfidernble 
amount in favourable years. The crops, in general, are 
very unequal; in 1779, there was {flipped3382 hogflieads, 
and 579 tierces, of fugar; irf 1782, the crop was 15102 
hogflieads, and 1603 tierces; in 1770, 1773, and 1778, 
there were no crops of any kind, owing to the long-con¬ 
tinued drought. ‘ 
The illand is divided into fix parilh.es and eleven dif- 
tficls, and contains fix towns and villages. St. John’s, 
(the capital,) Parham, Falmouth, Willoughby-bay, Old- 
road, and James’s F'ort; the two firft are the legal ports 01 
entry. The illand has many excellent harbours, particu¬ 
larly Englilh-harbour and St. John's, at the former of 
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