in Ancient Geography, a town of Assyria, situated between the rivers Tigris and Tigradotus (Pliny).—Another of Caria, on the Meander; called also Pythopolis, Athymbra, and Nyfa, or Nyfa (Stephanus): but Strabo says, that Nyfa was near Tralles.—A third of Cilicia Trachea, on Mount Craigus (Ptolemy).—A fourth, called Epiphanes, the capital of Syria, distinguished from cities of the same name, either by its situation on the Orontes, by which it was divided, or by its proximity to Daphne (See Antioch).—A fifth Antiochia, a town of Comagene, on the Euphrates (Pliny).—A sixth of Lydia Tralles, so called (Pliny).—A seventh of Margiana (Strabo, Pliny, Ptolemy), on the river Margus, taking its name from Antiochus, son of Seleucus, who rebuilt it, and walled it round, being before called Alexandria, from Antiochian from Alexander the founder, and surnamed Syria; in compass seventy stadia; whither Orodes carried the Romans, after the defeat of Crassus (Pliny).—An eighth, in Melopotamia, on the lake Calirrhoes, the old name of Edeleia (Pliny).—A ninth Antiochia, on the river Mygdonius, in Melopotamia, situated at the foot of Mount Marsus, and is the same with Nifibis (Strabo, Plutarch). It was the bulwark and frontier town of the Romans against the Parthians and Persians, till given up to the Persians, by Jovinian, by an ignominious peace (Amnian, Eutropius).—A tenth Antiochia, was that situated in the north of Pisidia (Luke, Ptolemy, Strabo): it was a Roman colony, with the appellation Caesarea. There is an Antiochia at Mount Taurus, mentioned by Ptolemy, but by no other author.

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.

ANTIOCHIAN Epoch, a method of computing time from the proclamation of liberty granted the city of Antioch about the time of the battle of Pharsalia.