=Antipătris=, a city of Palestine. =Antiphănes=, an ingenious statuary of Argos. _Pausanias_, bk. 5, ch. 17.――――A comic poet of Rhodes, or rather of Smyrna, who wrote above 90 comedies, and died in the 74th year of his age, by the fall of an apple upon his head.――――A physician of Delos, who used to say that diseases originated from the variety of food that was eaten. _Clement of Alexandria._――_Athenæus._ =Antiphătes=, a king of the Læstrygones, descended from Lamus, who founded Formiæ. Ulysses returning from Troy, came upon his coasts, and sent three men to examine the country. Antiphates devoured one of them, and pursued the others, and sunk the fleet of Ulysses with stones, except the ship in which Ulysses was. _Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 14, li. 232.――――A son of Sarpedon. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 9, li. 696.――――The grandfather of Amphiaraus. _Homer_, _Odyssey_.――――A man killed in the Trojan war by Leonteus. _Homer_, _Iliad_, bk. 12, li. 191. =Antiphĭli Portus=, a harbour on the African side of the Red sea. _Strabo_, bk. 16. =Antiphĭlus=, an Athenian who succeeded Leosthenes at the siege of Lamia against Antipater. _Diodorus_, bk. 18.――――A noble painter who represented a youth leaning over a fire and blowing it, from which the whole house seemed to be illuminated. He was an Egyptian by birth; he imitated Apelles, and was disciple to Ctesidemus. _Pliny_, bk. 35, ch. 10. =Antĭphon=, a poet.――――A native of Rhamnusia, called Nestor, from his eloquence and prudence. The 16 orations that are extant under his name, are supposititious.――――An orator who promised Philip king of Macedonia that he would set on fire the citadel of Athens, for which he was put to death, at the instigation of Demosthenes. _Cicero_, _de Divinatione_, bk. 2.――_Plutarch_, _Alcibiades_ & _Demosthenes_. ――――A poet who wrote on agriculture. _Athenæus._――――An author who wrote a treatise on peacocks.――――A rich man introduced by Xenophon as disputing with Socrates.――――An Athenian who interpreted dreams, and wrote a history of his art. _Cicero_, _de Divinatione_, bks. 1 & 2.――――A foolish rhetorician.――――A poet of Attica, who wrote tragedies, epic poems, and orations. Dionysius put him to death because he refused to praise his compositions. Being once asked by the tyrant what brass was the best, he answered, “That with which the statues of Harmodius and Aristogiton are made.” _Plutarch._ ――_Aristotle._ =Antiphŏnus=, a son of Priam, who went with his father to the tent of Achilles to redeem Hector. _Homer_, _Iliad_, bk. 24.