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Scarcely a Single houfe being left Standing in the moll beau¬ 
tiful and opulent part of the city. The like misfortune 
again happened in 525, during the reign of the emperor 
juftin ; and fifteen years after, being taken by Cofroes king 
of Perlia, that haughty monarch gave it up for plunder to 
his foldiers, who put all they met to the fword. The king 
himfelf feized on the gold and filver velfels belonging to 
the churches; and caufed all the valuable ltatues, pictures, 
&c. to be conveyed into Perfia, while his foldiers carried 
off every thing elfe, and then fet fire to the city. Such of 
the inhabitants as efcaped the fword were carried into Per¬ 
fia, and fold as flaves. Notwithstanding thefe calamities, 
the city of Antioch foon recovered its wonted Splendour; 
and as fuddenly underwent its ufualfate, being almott en¬ 
tirely destroyed by an earthquake in 587, by which 30,000 
perfons lolt their lives. In 634 it fell into the hands of the 
Saracens, who kept poffeffion of it till the year 858, when 
it was furprifed by Burtzas, and again annexed to the Ro¬ 
man empire. The Romans now continued matters of it 
until the civil diffenfions in that empire gave the Turks 
an opportunity of feizing upon it, as well as of the whole 
kingdom of Syria. From them it was again taken by the 
cruladers in 1098. In 1262 it was taken by Bybaris ful- 
tan of Egypt, who put a final period to its gloiy. 
Antioch is now no more than a ruinous town, whofe 
ltoufes, built with mud and Straw, and narrow and miry 
ltreets, exhibit every appearance of mifery and wretched- 
riels. Thefe houfes are fituated on the Southern bank of 
the Orontes, at the extremity of an old decayed bridge : 
they are covered to the fouth by a mountain, upon the 
Hope of which is a wall, built by the crufaders. Notwith¬ 
standing the unpolished manners of its inhabitants, Antioch 
was better calculated than Aleppo to be the emporium of 
the Europeans. By clearing the mouth of the Orontes, 
which is fix leagues lower down, boats might have been 
towed up that river, though they could not have failed up, 
as Pococke has afferted, its current being too rapid. The 
natives, who never knew the name Orontes, call it, on ac¬ 
count of the S’wiftnefs of its ftream, El-aafi, the rebel. It 
is to be remembered, we now no longer hear at Antioch, 
either the Grove, or of Daphne, or of the voluptuous 
fcenes of which it was the theatre. 
ANTIO'CHE (Pertuis d’), a channel in the Atlantic, 
on the French coaft, near the northern part of the illand 
of Oleron, and on the Southern of theiSle of Rile. 
ANTIOCHET'TA, a town of Afiatic Turkey, on the 
fea-coaft of Caramania: eighty-eight miles fouth of Cogni. 
ANTIO'CHIAj in the ancient geography, a town of Al- 
Syria, fituated between the rivers Tigris and Tornadotus. 
—Another of Caria, on tire Meander ; called alfo Pytho- 
polis , Atkymbra , and Ny/a. —A third of Cilicia Trachea, on 
Mount Cragus.—A fourth, called Epidaphnes, capital of 
Syria, distinguished from cities of the fame name, either by 
its Situation on the Orontes, by which it was divided, or by 
its proximity to Daphne (See Antioch). —A fifth Anti- 
ochia, a town of Comagene, on the Euphrates.—A fixth, 
of Lydia, Tralles , So called.—A feventh, of Margiana, on 
the river Margus, taking its name from Antiochus, fon of 
Seleucus, who rebuilt it, and walled it round, being before 
called Alexandria, from Alexander the founder, and fur- 
named Syria ; in compafs Seventy ftadia; whither Orodes 
carried the Romans after the defeat of Craffus.—An 
eighth in Mesopotamia, on the lake Calirrhoe, the old 
name of Edefl'a.—A ninth on the river Mygdonius, in 
Mesopotamia, Situate at the foot of Mount Mafius, and is 
the lame with Nifibis. It was the bulwark and frontier- 
town of the Romans againlt the Parthian and Persians, 
till given up to the Persians, by Jovinian, by an ignomi¬ 
nious peace.—A tenth in the north of PiSidia ; it was a 
Roman colony, with the appellation of Cafarca. —There is 
alfo an Antiochia at Mount Taurus, mentioned by Pto¬ 
lemy, but by no other author. 
ANTIO'CHIA, a town of South America, in the king¬ 
dom of Popayan. 
ANTIO'CHIAN, adj. Belonging to Antioch. 
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ANTIO'CHIAN, f. An inhabitant or native of An¬ 
tioch. 
ANTIO'CHIAN SECT, or Academy, a name given 
tothefifth academy, or branch of academics. It took its 
name from being Sounded by Antiochus, a philofopher 
contemporary with Cicero; and it fucceeded the Philonian 
academy. Though Antiochus was really a Stoic, and only 
nominally an academic. 
ANTIO'CHIAN EPOCHA, a method of computing 
time from the proclamation of liberty granted to the city 
of Antioch, about the time of the battle of Pharfalia. 
ANTI'OCHIS, the name of a woman. 2 Mac. iv. 30. 
ANTI'OCHUS, the name of feveral kings of Syria.— 
Alfo the name of a celebrated philosopher, the difciple of 
Philo of Larifla, the maSter of Cicero, and the friend of 
Lucullus and Brutus. He was founder of a fifth academy; 
but, inSlead of attacking other fe£ts, he fet himfelf down 
to reconcile them together, particularly the left of the 
Stoics with that of the ancient academy.—The name of a 
man. 1 Mac. i 10. 
ANTI'OPE, the daughter of Nyfteus king of Thebes, 
who was carried away by Epopeus king of Sicyon. After 
the death of her father, She was recovered by her uncle 
Lycus, who married her, but foon divorced her to marry 
Dirce. Soon after her repudiation Site became pregnant 
by Jupiter, who enjoyed her in the likenefs of a fatyr; and 
Dirce, fufpefting that her hutband Still kept the company 
of Antiope, confined her in a prifon, from whence She es¬ 
caped to Mount Cytheron, and was there delivered of Ze- 
thus and Amphion, who afterwards avenged her wrongs 
upon Lycus and Dirce.—A daughter of Mars, queen of 
the Amazons, who married Thefeus, and had a fon by 
him called Hippolytus. She is alfo called Hippolyte. 
ANTIPyEDOBAP'TISTS, f. [from am, againlt, w»i ( , 
child,'and to baptize.] A denomination given to 
thole who objedt to the baptifm of infants; becaufe they 
lay infants are incapable of being inftrudted, and of mak¬ 
ing that profeflion of faith which entitles them to this 
ordinance and an admiflion into church-communion. 
ANTIPAG'MENTS, f. in architecture, the garnishing 
of pofts and pillars. 
ANTIPAPIS'TICAL, adj. [from «m, Gr. and papa, 
Lat.] Averfe to popery.—It is pleafant to fee, how the 
moll antipapijlical poets are inclined to canonize their 
friends. Jortin on Milton's Lycidas. 
ANTIPARALYT'IC, or Antiparalyt'ical, adj . 
Good againlt the palfy. 
ANTIPARASI'ASIS, f. in rhetoric, a figure which 
admits the pofition of the adverfary, but turns it direCtly 
againlt him. 
ANTIPARASTA'SIS, f. in rhetoric, a figure that 
admits the pofition of the adverfary, but denies the in¬ 
ference. 
ANTIPA'ROS, one of the Greek islands in the Archi¬ 
pelago, oppofite to Paros, from which it is Separated by a 
Strait about feven miles over. It is the Olearos mentioned 
by Strabo, Pliny, Virgil, See. and was, according to Hera- 
clides Ponticus, firll peopled by a Phoenician colony from 
Sidon. According to Mr. Tournefort, it is about Sixteen 
miles in circumference, producing a little wine and cotton, 
with as much corn as is neceffary for the maintenance of 
fixty or Seventy families, who live together in a village at 
one end of the island, and are moltly Maltele and French 
corSairs. 
This island is reraarkble for a fubterraneous cavern or 
grotto, accounted one of the greatest natural curiofities in 
the world. It was discovered in the laPc century by one 
Magni, an Italian traveller; but the belt account of it we 
have met with is in a periodical publication called the 
Zoological Magazine; which, as it feems to bear Sufficient 
marks of authenticity, we Shalll here infert. <c Its en¬ 
trance lies in the fide of a rock, about two miles from the 
lea-ill ore ; and is a Spacious and very large arch, formed 
of rough craggy rocks, overhung with brambles and a 
a great many climbing plants, that give it a gloominefs 
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