ANTIOCHIAN SECT or Academy, a name given to the fifth academy, or branch of Academies. It took the denomination from its being founded by Antiochus, a philosopher contemporary with Cicero.—The Antiochian academy succeeded the Philonian. As to point of doctrine, the philosophers of this sect appear to have restored that of the ancient academy, except that in the article of the criterion of truth. Antiochus was really a Stoic, and only nominally an Academic.