ANTILIA, an ancient machine, supposed to be the same with our pump. Hence the phrase in antilium 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 ἀντίλια is used to signify merely a bucket with a rope. See c. iv. 11.

ANTILIA, in Entomology, the oral instrument of lepidopterous insects, used for suction.

ANTECEI (ἀντὶ and ὁδός), those who live under the same meridian, and at the same distance from the equator; the one toward the north, and the other toward the south. Hence they have the same longitude; and their latitude is also the same, but of a different denomination: they are in the same semicircle of the meridian, but in opposite parallels: they have precisely the same hours of the day and night, but opposite seasons; and the night of the one is always equal to the day of the other.