=Antimăchus=, a lascivious person.――――An historian.――――A Greek poet and musician of Ionia in the age of Socrates. He wrote a treatise on the age and genealogy of Homer, and proved him to be a native of Colophon. He repeated one of his compositions before a large audience, but his diction was so obscure and unintelligible that all retired except Plato; on which he said, _Legam nihilominus, Plato enim mihi est unus instar omnium_. He was reckoned the next to Homer in excellence, and the emperor Adrian was so fond of his poetry that he preferred him to Homer. He wrote a poem upon the Theban war; and before he had brought his heroes to the city of Thebes, he had filled 24 volumes. He was surnamed _Clarius_ from Claros, a mountain near Colophon, where he was born. _Pausanias_, bk. 9, ch. 35.―― _Plutarch_, _Lysander_ & _Timoleon_.――_Propertius_, bk. 2, poem 34, li. 45.――_Quintilian_, bk. 10, ch. 1.――――Another poet of the same name, surnamed _Psecas_, because he praised himself. _Suidas._――――A Trojan whom Paris bribed to oppose the restoring of Helen to Menelaus and Ulysses, who had come as ambassadors to recover her. His sons, Hippolochus and Pisander, were killed by Agamemnon. _Homer_, _Iliad_, bk. 11, li. 123; bk. 23, li. 188.――――A son of Hercules by a daughter of Thestius. _Apollodorus_, bks. 2 & 3.――――A native of Heliopolis, who wrote a poem on the creation of the world, in 3780 verses. =Antimĕnes=, a son of Deiphon. _Pausanias_, bk. 2, ch. 28. =Antinoe=, one of the daughters of Pelias, whose wishes to restore her father to youthful vigour proved so fatal. _Apollodorus_, bk. 1.―― _Pausanias_, bk. 8, ch. 11. =Antinoeia=, annual sacrifices and quinquennial games in honour of Antinous, instituted by the emperor Adrian at Mantinea, where Antinous was worshipped as a divinity. =Antinopŏlis=, a town of Egypt, built in honour of Antinous. =Antinous=, a youth of Bithynia, of whom the emperor Adrian was so extremely fond, that at his death he erected a temple to him, and wished it to be believed that he had been changed into a constellation. Some writers suppose that Antinous was drowned in the Nile, while others maintain that he offered himself at a sacrifice as a victim, in honour of the emperor.――――A native of Ithaca, son of Eupeithes, and one of Penelope’s suitors. He was brutal and cruel in his manners; and excited his companions to destroy Telemachus, whose advice comforted his mother Penelope. When Ulysses returned home he came to the palace in a beggar’s dress, and begged for bread, which Antinous refused, and even struck him. After Ulysses had discovered himself to Telemachus and Eumæus, he attacked the suitors, who were ignorant who he was, and killed Antinous among the first. _Homer_, _Odyssey_, bks. 1, 16, 17, & 22.――_Propertius_, bk. 2, poem 5, li. 7.