ANTIOCH, in Pisidia. The ruins of this city, of great magnificence, were discovered by Arundel, in 1833, about a mile from Yalobatch, and are in Lat. 38. 18. N. Long. 31. 23. E.—Researches in Asia Minor.
It was to this Antioch that Paul and Barnabas came on leaving Perga; and after preaching here, a commotion being raised against them by the Jewish inhabitants, "they shook off the dust of their feet." The city is said by Strabo to be in Phrygia, near Pisidia. The remains consist of an aqueduct, a theatre, foundations of temples, and innumerable fragments of fine cornices and columns.
ANTIOCH ad Taurum, now Aintab; which see.
ANTIOCHIAN SECT or ACADEMY, a name given to what was called the fifth academy, from its being founded by Antiochus, a philosopher contemporary with Cicero. The Antiochian academy succeeded the Philonian. As to doctrine, the philosophers of this sect appear to have restored that of the ancient academy, except in the article of the criterion of truth. Antiochus was really a Stoic, and only nominally an Academic.