ANTEPILANI, in the Roman armies, a name given to the hastati and principes, because they marched next before the triarii, who were called pilani.
Antepilep- ANTEPILEPTICS, among physicians, medicines
tics esteemed good in the epilepsy.
Anthem. ANTEPOSITION, a grammatical figure, where-
by a word, which by the ordinary rules of syntax ought
to follow another, comes before it. As when, in the Latin,
the adjective is put before the substantive, the verb
before the nominative case, &c.