ANTLIA, an ancient machine, supposed to be the same with our pump. Hence the phrase in antliam condemnari, according to the critics, denotes a kind of punishment whereby criminals were condemned to drain ponds, ditches, or the like. But prior to the invention of the pump this word was applied indifferently to any implement for drawing water; and even so late as the time of St John ἀντλία is used to signify merely a bucket with a rope. See c. iv. 11.