=Antitheus=, an Athenian archon. _Pausanias_, bk. 7, ch. 17. =Antium=, a maritime town of Italy, built by Ascanius, or, according to others, by a son of Ulysses and Circe, upon a promontory 32 miles east from Ostium. It was the capital of the Volsci, who made war against the Romans for above 200 years. Camillus took it, and carried all the beaks of their ships to Rome, and placed them in the Forum on a tribunal, which from thence was called _Rostrum_. This town was dedicated to the goddess of Fortune, whose statues, when consulted, gave oracles by a nodding of the head, or other different signs. Nero was born there. _Cicero_, _de Divinatione_, bk. 1. ――_Horace_, bk. 1, ode 35.――_Livy_, bk. 8, ch. 14. =Antomĕnes=, the last king of _Corinth_. After his death, magistrates with regal authority were chosen annually. =Antōnia lex=, was enacted by Marcus Antony the consul, A.U.C. 710. It abrogated the _lex Atia_, and renewed the _lex Cornelia_, by taking away from the people the privilege of choosing priests, and restoring it to the college of priests, to which it originally belonged. _Dio Cassius_, bk. 44.――――Another by the same, A.U.C. 703. It ordained that a new decury of judges should be added to the two former, and that they should be chosen from the centurions. _Cicero_, _Philippics_, speeches 1 & 5.――――Another by the same. It allowed an appeal to the people, to those who were condemned _de majestate_, or of perfidious measures against the state.――――Another by the same, during his triumvirate. It made it a capital offence to propose ever after the election of a dictator, and for any person to accept of the office. _Appian_, _Civil Wars_, bk. 3. =Antōnia=, a daughter of Marcus Antony by Octavia. She married Domitius Ænobarbus, and was mother of Nero and of two daughters. ――――A sister of Germanicus.――――A daughter of Claudius and Ælia Petina. She was of the family of the Tuberos, and was repudiated for her levity. _Suetonius_, _Claudius_, ch. 1.――_Tacitus_, _Annals_, bk. 11.――――The wife of Drusus, the son of Livia and brother to Tiberius. She became mother of three children, Germanicus, Caligula’s father, Claudius the emperor, and the debauched Livia. Her husband died very early, and she never would marry again, but spent her time in the education of her children. Some people suppose that her grandson Caligula ordered her to be poisoned, A.D. 38. _Valerius Maximus_, bk. 4, ch. 3.――――A castle of Jerusalem, which received this name in honour of Marcus Antony. =Antōnii=, a patrician and plebeian family, which were said to derive their origin from Antones, a son of Hercules, as _Plutarch_, _Antonius_ informs us. =Antonīna=, the wife of Belisarius, &c.