Anopæa, a mountain and road near the river Asopus. Herodotus, bk. 7, ch. 216.
Anser, a Roman poet, whom Ovid, Tristia, bk. 3, poem 1, li. 425, calls bold and impertinent. Virgil and Propertius are said to have played upon his name with some degree of severity.
Ansibarii, a people of Germany. Tacitus, Annals, bk. 13, ch. 55.
Antæa, the wife of Proteus, called also Stenobæa. Homer, Iliad.——A goddess worshipped by the inhabitants of Antium.
Antæas, a king of Scythia, who said that the neighing of a horse was far preferable to the music of Ismenias, a famous musician who had been taken captive. Plutarch.
Antæus, a giant of Libya, son of Terra and Neptune. He was so strong in wrestling, that he boasted that he would erect a temple to his father with the skulls of his conquered antagonists. Hercules attacked him, and as he received new strength from his mother as often as he touched the ground, the hero lifted him up in the air, and squeezed him to death in his arms. Lucan, bk. 4, li. 598.—Statius, bk. 6, Thebiad, li. 893.—Juvenal, satire 3, li. 88.——A servant of Atticus. Cicero, Letters to Atticus, bk. 13, ltr. 44.——A friend of Turnus, killed by Æneas. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 10, li. 561.
Antagŏras, a man of Cos. Pausanias, bk. 3, ch. 5.——A Rhodian poet, much admired by Antigonus. Pausanias, bk. 1, ch. 2. One day as he was cooking some fish, the king asked him whether Homer ever dressed any meals when he was recording the actions of Agamemnon. “And do you think,” replied the poet, “that he ὡ λαοι τ’ ἐπιτετραφαται και τοσσα μεμηλε (ever inquired whether any individual dressed fish in his army)?” Plutarch, Convivium Septem Sapientium & Apophthegmata Laconica.
Antalcĭdas, of Sparta, son of Leon, was sent into Persia, where he made a peace with Artaxerxes very disadvantageous to his country, by which, B.C. 387, the Greek cities of Asia became tributary to the Persian monarch. Pausanias, bk. 9, ch. 1, &c.—Diodorus, bk. 14.—Plutarch, Artaxerxes.
Antander, a general of Messenia, against the Spartans. Pausanias, bk. 4, ch. 7.——A brother of Agathocles tyrant of Sicily. Justin, bk. 22, ch. 7.
Antandros, now St. Dimitri, a city of Troas, inhabited by the Leleges, near which Æneas built his fleet after the destruction of Troy. It has been called Edonis, Cimmeris, Assos, and Apollonia. There is a hill in its neighbourhood called Alexandria, where Paris sat, as some suppose, when the three rival goddesses appeared before him when contending for the prize of beauty. Strabo, bk. 13.—Virgil, Æneid, bk. 3, li. 6.—Mela, bk. 1, ch. 18.