ANTIPH'OLUS, the name of two brothers, twins, the sons of Aege'on, a merchant of Syracuse. The two brothers were shipwrecked in infancy, and, being picked up by different cruisers, one was carried to Syracuse, and the other to Ephesus. The Ephesian entered the service of the duke, and, being fortunate enough to save the duke's life, became a great man and married well. The Syracusian Antipholus, going in search of his brother, came to Ephesus, where a series of blunders occurs from the wonderful likeness of the two brothers and their two servants called Dromio. The confusion becomes so great that the Ephesian is taken up as a madman. It so happened that both brothers appeared before the duke at the same time; and the extraordinary likeness being seen by all, the cause of the blunders was evident, and everything was satisfactorily explained.--Shakespeare, _Comedy of Errors_ (1593). ANTON (_Sir_). Tennyson says that Merlin gave Arthur, when an infant, to sir Anton and his lady to bring up, and they brought him up as their own son. This does not correspond with the _History of Prince Arthur_, which states that he was committed to the care of sir Ector and his lady, whose son, sir Key, is over and over again called the prince's foster-brother. The _History_ furthermore states that Arthur made sir Key his seneschal _because_ he was his foster-brother. So the child was delivered unto Merlin, and he bare him forth unto sir Ector, and made a holy man christen him, and named him "Arthur." And so sir Ector's wife nourished him with her own breast.--Part i. 3. So sir Ector rode to the justs, and with him rode sir Key, his son, and young Arthur that was his nourished brother.--Ditto. "Sir," said sir Ector, "I will ask no more of you but that you will make my son, sir Key, your foster-brother, seneschal of all your lands." "That shall be done," said Arthur (ch. 4).--Sir T. Malory, _History of Prince Arthur_ (1470). _Anton_, one of Henry Smith's men in _The Fair Maid of Perth_, by sir W. Scott (time, Henry IV.). ANTO'NIO, a sea captain who saved Sebastian, the brother of Vi'ola, when wrecked off the coast of Illyria.--Shakespeare, _Twelfth Night_ (1614). _Anto'nio_, the Swiss lad who acts as the guide from Lucern, in sir W. Scott's _Anne of Geierstein_ (time, Edward IV.). _Anto'nio_, a stout old gentleman, kinsman of Petruccio, governor of Bologna.--Beaumont and Fletcher, _The Chances_ (a comedy, before 1621). _Antonio (Don)_, father of Carlos, a bookworm, and Clodio, a coxcomb; a testy, headstrong old man. He wants Carlos to sign away his birthright in favor of his younger brother, to whom he intends Angelina to be married; but Carlos declines to give his signature, and elopes with Angelina, whom he marries, while Clodio engages his troth to Elvira of Lisbon.--C. Cibber, _Love Makes a Man_.