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of our journey. I do not know what effect this might 
have upon the reft of my companions ; but I believed no 
part of the Ipeech but the laft, which I expected every 
moment to find fulfilled in fome pond or precipice. Our 
paffage was by this time become very narrow, and we 
were obliged to crawl on all-fours over rugged rocks 5 when 
in an inftant, and in the midil of thefe melancholy ap- 
prehenfions, I heard a little hilling noife, and found my- 
lelf ii! utter and undefcribable darknefs. Our guides called 
indeed cheerfully to us, and told us that they had acci¬ 
dentally dropped their torches into a puddle of water, 
but we fliould foon come to the reft of them, and they 
would light them again ; and told us there was no danger, 
and we had nothing to do but to crawl forward. I can¬ 
not fay but I was amazed at the courage of thefe people ; 
who were in a place where, I thought, four of them had 
already perilhed, and from whence we could none of us 
ever elcape ; and determined to lie down and die where I 
was. Words cannot defcribe the horror or extreme gloomi- 
nefs of the place. One of our guides, perceiving that I 
did not advance, came up to me; and, clapping his hand 
firmly over my eyes, dragged me a few paces forward. 
While I was in this ftrange condition, expecting every 
moment death in a thoufand fnapes,.and trembling to think 
what the guide meant by this rough proceeding, he lifted 
me at once over a great done, let me down on my feet, 
and took his hand from before my eyes. What words can 
defcribe at that inftant my aftonifhment and tranfport !' 
Inftead of darknefs and clefpair, all was fplendour and 
magnificence before me: our guides all appeared about us ; 
the place was illuminated by fifty torches, and the guides 
all welcomed me into the grotto of Antiparos. The four 
that were firft miffing, I now found had only given us the 
flip, to get the torches lighted up before we came ; and 
the other two had put out their lights on purpofe to make 
us enter out of utter darknefs into this pavilion of fplen¬ 
dour and glory. 
“ The people told us,, the depth of this place was 485 
yards; the grotto, in which we now were, is a cavern of 
120 yards wide and 113 long,’ and fee ms about 60 yards 
high in raoft places.. Imagine, then, an immznfe arch 
like this, almoft entirely lined with fine bright cryftallized 
white marble; and the mind will then acquire fome faint 
idea of the place I had the pleafure to fpend three hours 
in. This, however, is but a faint defcription of its beau¬ 
ties. The roof, which is a fine vaulted arch, is hung all 
over with icicles of white fhining marble, fome of. them 
ten feet long, and as thick as one’s middle at the root; 
and among thele there hang at leaft a thoufand feftoons 
of leaves and flowers, of the fame fubftance ; but fo very 
glittering, that there is no bearing to look up at them. 
The fides of the arch are planted with feeming trees of the 
fame white eryital, riling in rows one above another, and 
often inclofing the points of the icicles. From thefe trees 
are alfo hung feftoons, tied as it were from one to ano¬ 
ther in vaft quantities : and in fome places among them 
there feem rivers of marble winding through them in a 
thoufand meanders. All thefe things are only made, in a 
long courfe of years, from the dropping of water, but re¬ 
ally look like trees and brooks turned into marble. The 
floor we trod upon was rough and uneven, with cryftals of 
all colours growing irregularly out of it, red, blue, green, 
and fome of a pale yellow. Thefe were all fhaped like 
pieces of faltpetre ; hut fo hard that they cut our fnoes ; 
among thefe, here and there, are placed icicles of the fame 
white ihining marble with thole above, feeming to have 
fallen down from the root and fixed there. Our guides 
had tied torches two or three to a pillar, and kept conti¬ 
nually beating them to make them burn bright; imagine, 
then, what a glare of fplendour and beauty mull be the 
efteft of this illumination, among 1'uch rocks and columns 
of marble! All round the lower part of the fides of the 
arch are a thoufand white maffes of cryftal, In the lhape 
of oak-trees, which are large enough to inclofe, in many 
places, a piece of ground big enough for a bed-chamber. 
One of thefe chambers has a fair white curtain, whiter than 
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fatin, of the fame marble, ftretched all over the front of 
it. In this vve cut our names, and the date of the year; 
and then returned highly gratified with cur arduous per¬ 
ambulation.” 
AN'TIPAS (Herod), the fon of Herod the Great by 
Cleopatra. Herod, in his firft will, appointed Antipas his 
lucceffor in the kingdom; but afterwards, altering that 
will, he named his Ion Archelaus .his fuccefi’or, giving to 
Antipas the title only of tetrarch of Galilee and Percea, 
Antipas married the daughter of Aretas king of Arabia, 
whom he divorced about the year of Chrift 3?, to marry 
his fifter-in-law Herodias, wife to his brother Philip, who 
was Hill living. St. John the Baptift, exclaiming againft 
this inceft, was taken into cultody by order of Antipas, 
iinprifoned in the caftle of Machs:rus, and afterwards be¬ 
headed, as related in Matth. xiv. 3-12. Aretas, king of 
Arabia, to revenge the affront which Herod had offered 
to his daughter, declared war againft him, and overcame 
him in a very obftinate engagement. Herod, being after¬ 
wards detected as a party in Sejanus’s confpiracy, was ba~ 
nilhed by the emperor Caius into Lyons in Gaui; whi¬ 
ther Herodias accompanied him. This Antipas is the 
Herod who, being at Jerufalem at the time of our Sa¬ 
viour’s pafiion, (Luke xxiii. 11.) ridiculed him, by dreff- 
ing him in a white robe, and directing him to be con¬ 
duced back to Pilate, as a mock king, whofe ambition- 
gave him no umbrage. 
ANTIP'ATER, [am, againft, and father, Gr 
1. e. inftead of, or againft, a father.] A proper name of men. 
ANTIP'ATER, the difciple of Ariftotle, and one of 
Alexander the Great’s generals, was a man of great abili¬ 
ties, and a lover of the iciences ; but was accufed of poi- 
foning Alexander. He fubdued the revolted Thracians, 
relieved Megalopolis, and overthrew the Spartans there. 
He died 321 years before the Chriftian sera. 
ANTIP'ATER, an Idumean of illuftrious birth, and 
poffeifed of great riches and abilities, taking advantage of 
the confufion into which the two brothers Hyrcanus and 
Ariftobulus plunged Judea by their conteft for the office 
of high-prielt, took fuch meafures as to gain Hyrcanus 
that office, and under his government to obtain the abfo- 
Iute direction of all affairs; while his great abilities and 
application to bufinefs made him fo confiderable, that he 
was honoured as much as if he had been invefted with the 
royal authority in form : but he was at laft poifoned by a 
Jew, named Malachus, forty-three years before the Chrif¬ 
tian sera.' He left, among his other children, the famous 
Herod, king of the Jews. 
ANTIP'ATER (Caslius),a Roman hiftorian, who wrote 
a hilfory of the Punic war, much valued by Cicero. The' 
emperor Adrian preferred him to Salluft. 
ANTIP'ATER, of Sidon, a ftoic philofopher, andlike- 
wife a poet, commended by Cicero and Seneca. He flou- 
rifhed about the 171ft Olympiad. We have feveral of his 
epigrams in the Antko/ogia. 
ANTIP'ATER, or Caphar Saea, a feaport town of 
Syria, at the mouth of a river which runs into the Me¬ 
diterranean : fix leagues fouth-fouth-weft of Jaffa. 
ANTIP'ATHES, f [froma fuperftitious notion among 
the ancients that this coral, as well as many ftones and 
gems, had a power to drive away enchantments.] The 
Dark Coral; in helminthology, it is a genus of worms 
of the order of zoophyta. The generic characters are— 
Animal growing in the form of a plant; Hern expanded at 
the bale, internally horny befet with final 1 fpines, exter¬ 
nally covered with a gelatinous flelh befet with numerous 
polype-bearing tubercles. 
Species. 1. Antipathes fpiralis, or fpiral antipathes : 
with a very Ample fpiral rough Item. Inhabits the In¬ 
dian, Mediterranean, and North, Seas: of a hard horny 
black fubftance exceedingly brittle, very long and vari- 
ouiiy twilled, and about the fize of a writing-pen. See 
Plate of Anthrenus, fig. 2. The flelhy part that covers 
the fpiriy furface of the bone is full of little gelatinous 
wart-like figures. When vve have loaked thefe warts for 
fome time in warm water, they appear like polypes with fix 
claws 
