_Antigonus Gonatas_, abandoned by his troops, i, 569; again appointed king, 569; marches to Argos, 569; decay of the Macedonian empire during the later years of his reign, ii, 144. _Antioch_, the seat of wit, iii, 257; many Christians there, 273; sacked by the Persians, 280; battle, 286. _Antioch_, the people of, their frivolity and luxury, iii, 311; rouse the wrath of Theodosius, 322. _Antiochus Epiphanes_, his character correctly described in the book of the Maccabees, ii, 207; his connexion with Perseus, 211; war against Egypt, 220; his last disease, 390. _Antiochus the Great_ of Syria, allies himself with Philip III. against Ptolemy Epiphanes, ii, 147; conquers Perinthus, Ephesus, and Lycia, 148; bears unjustly the surname of the Great, 165; better than the princes of his house who had the same name, 166; extent of his rule, 166; negociations of the Romans with him, 167; rejects Hannibal’s advice, 170; lands in Greece, 171; battle of Thermopylæ, 173; returns to Asia, 173; his fleet commanded by Hannibal, 175; conquered near Myonnesus, 175; evacuates the Chersonesus, 176; falls back into Lydia, 176; offers to conclude a peace, 177; battle of Magnesia, 178; peace, 179. _Antiochus Hierax_ war against Ptolemy Euergetes, ii, 182. _Antiochus Soter_, ii, 166. _Antiochus Theos_, an utterly infamous prince, ii, 166. _Antipater_ L. Cœlius. See Cœlius. _Antiquities_, the study of Roman antiquities makes rapid progress in the beginning of the 16th century, i, 68. _Antium_, at first Tyrrhenian, afterwards Volscian, i, 223; sprung from the same stock with Rome and Ardea, 223; conquered in 286 by the Romans, 274; receives a Volscian colony, 274; opposition; the old citizens call in the Romans, 274; receives a colony of Romans, Latins, and Hernicans, 274; _Antiates mille milites_, 274; restored to the Volscians, 286; severed from Rome, 390; a marine colony, 450; its fate after the Latin war, 450; laid waste, ii, 372. _Antonia_, daughter of M. Antonius and Octavia, Drusus’ wife, iii, 104; mother of the emperor Claudius, 181. _M. Antoninus_ marries one of his daughters to Pompeian, a Greek, i, 62; in his reign, there remains only the art of casting in bronze, iii, 224; his real name Annius Verus, 236; called by Hadrian, Verissimus, 236; different accounts concerning his adoption, 237; his beauty, 238; character, 238; meditations, 238; correspondence with Fronto, 238; stoicism, 239; love of his subjects, 239; his monumental column very much damaged, 242; goes to the East, 245; _dialogista_, 245; Avidius Cassius’ opinion on him, 245; his death, 246; he sells the valuable things of his palace, 248; his equestrian statue, a noble work, 275; writes very good Greek, 324.