anno urbis conditæ (L.), in the year the city [Rome] was built (753 B.C.).

annus mirabilis (L.), year of wonders.

anonyma (Gr.), a showy woman of light fame whom one is not supposed to know.

Antar, the hero of an Arabian romance based on the exploits of Antara ben Shaddād;—‛anterī (pl. ‛anātira), a reciter of romances in Egypt.

ante Agamemnona. See vixere fortes.

ante bellum (L.), before the war.

ante lucem (L.), before light.

ante meridiem (L.), before noon.

Anteros (Gr.), a deity capable of resisting Eros or love.

antibarbarus (Late L.), a name applied to a collection of words and locutions to be avoided in the classical usage of a language.