The Modern Antigone, Marie Therese Charlotte duchesse d’Angouleme, daughter of Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette (1778-1851).

ANTIG’ONUS, a Sicilian lord, commanded by king Leontes to take his infant daughter to a desert shore and leave her to perish.  Antigonus was driven by a storm to the coast of Bohemia, where he left the babe; but on his way back to the ship, he was torn to pieces by a bear.—­Shakespeare, The Winter’s Tale (1604).

Antig’onus (King), an old man with a young man’s amorous passions.  He is one of the four kings who succeeded to the divided empire of Alexander the Great.—­Beaumont and Fletcher, The Humorous Lieutenant (1647).

ANTIN’OUS (4 syl.), a page of Hadrian, the Roman emperor, noted for his beauty.

Antin’ous (4 syl.), son of Cas’silane (3 syl.) general of Candy, and brother of An’no-phel, in The Laws of Candy a drama by Beaumont and Fletcher (1647).

ANTI’OCHUS, emperor of Greece, who sought the life of Per’icles prince of Tyre, but died without effecting his desire.—­Shakespeare, Pericles Prince of Tyre (1608).

ANTI’OPE (4 syl.), daughter of Idom’e-neus (4 syl.), for whom Telem’achus had a tendresse.  Mentor approved his choice, and assured Telemachus that the lady was designed for him by the gods.  Her charms were “the glowing modesty of her countenance, her silent diffidence, and her sweet reserve; her constant attention to tapestry or to some other useful and elegant employment; her diligence in household affairs, her contempt of finery in dress, and her ignorance of her own beauty,” Telemachus says, “She encourages to industry by her example, sweetens labor by the melody of her voice, and excels the best of painters in the elegance of her embroidery.”—­Fenelon, Telemaque, xxii. (1700).

He [Paul] fancied he had found in Virginia the wisdom of Antiope with the misfortunes and the tenderness of Eucharis.—­Bernardin de St. Pierre, Paul and Virginia (1788).

ANTIPH’OLUS, the name of two brothers, twins, the sons of Aege’on, a merchant of Syracuse.  The two brothers were shipwrecked in infancy, and, being picked up by different cruisers, one was carried to Syracuse, and the other to Ephesus.  The Ephesian entered the service of the duke, and, being fortunate enough to save the duke’s life, became a great man and married well.  The Syracusian Antipholus, going in search of his brother, came to Ephesus, where a series of blunders occurs from the wonderful likeness of the two brothers and their two servants called Dromio.  The confusion becomes so great that the Ephesian is taken up as a madman.  It so happened that both brothers appeared before the duke at the same time; and the extraordinary likeness being seen by all, the cause of the blunders was evident, and everything was satisfactorily explained.—­Shakespeare, Comedy of Errors (1593).