=Annon=, or =Hanno=, a Carthaginian general conquered in Spain by Scipio, and sent to Rome. He was son of Bomilcar whom Annibal sent privately over the Rhone to conquer the Gauls. _Livy_, bk. 21, ch. 27.――――A Carthaginian who taught birds to sing “Annon is a god,” after which he restored them to their native liberty; but the birds lost with their slavery what they had been taught. _Ælian_, _Varia Historia_, bk. 14, ch. 30.――――A Carthaginian who wrote, in the Punic language, the account of a voyage which he had made round Africa. This book was translated into Greek, and is still extant. _Vossius_, _Greek Historians_, bk. 4.――――Another, banished from Carthage for taming a lion for his own amusement, which was interpreted as if he wished to aspire to sovereign power. _Pliny_, bk. 8, ch. 16.――――This name has been common to many Carthaginians who have signalized themselves among their countrymen during the Punic wars against Rome, and in their wars against the Sicilians. _Livy_, bks. 26, 27, &c. =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_.