ANTON (Sir).  Tennyson says that Merlin gave Arthur, when an infant, to sir Anton and his lady to bring up, and they brought him up as their own son.  This does not correspond with the History of Prince Arthur, which states that he was committed to the care of sir Ector and his lady, whose son, sir Key, is over and over again called the prince’s foster-brother.  The History furthermore states that Arthur made sir Key his seneschal because he was his foster-brother.

So the child was delivered unto Merlin, and he bare him forth unto sir Ector, and made a holy man christen him, and named him “Arthur.”  And so sir Ector’s wife nourished him with her own breast.—­Part i. 3.

  So sir Ector rode to the justs, and with him
  rode sir Key, his son, and young Arthur that
  was his nourished brother.—­Ditto.

“Sir,” said sir Ector, “I will ask no more of you but that you will make my son, sir Key, your foster-brother, seneschal of all your lands.”  “That shall be done,” said Arthur (ch. 4).—­Sir T. Malory, History of Prince Arthur (1470).

Anton, one of Henry Smith’s men in The Fair Maid of Perth, by sir W. Scott (time, Henry IV.).

ANTO’NIO, a sea captain who saved Sebastian, the brother of Vi’ola, when wrecked off the coast of Illyria.—­Shakespeare, Twelfth Night (1614).

Anto’nio, the Swiss lad who acts as the guide from Lucern, in sir W. Scott’s Anne of Geierstein (time, Edward IV.).

Anto’nio, a stout old gentleman, kinsman of Petruccio, governor of Bologna.—­Beaumont and Fletcher, The Chances (a comedy, before 1621).

Antonio (Don), father of Carlos, a bookworm, and Clodio, a coxcomb; a testy, headstrong old man.  He wants Carlos to sign away his birthright in favor of his younger brother, to whom he intends Angelina to be married; but Carlos declines to give his signature, and elopes with Angelina, whom he marries, while Clodio engages his troth to Elvira of Lisbon.—­C.  Cibber, Love Makes a Man.

Antonio (Don), in love with Louisa, the daughter of don Jerome of Seville.  A poor nobleman of ancient family.—­Sheridan, The Duenna (1778).

ANTONOMAS’IA (The princess), daughter of Archipiela, king of Candaya, and his wife Maguncia.  She married don Clavijo, but the giant Malambru’no, by enchantment, changed the bride into a brass monkey, and her spouse into a crocodile of some unknown metal.  Don Quixote mounted the wooden horse Clavileno the Winged, to disenchant the lady and her husband, and this he effected “simply by making the attempt.”—­Cervantes, Don Quixote, II iii. 4, 5 (1615).

ANTONY (Saint) lived in a cavern on the summit of Cavadonga, in Spain, and was perpetually annoyed by devils.

  Old St. Antonius from the hell
  Of his bewildered phantasy saw fiends
  In actual vision, a foul throng grotesque
  Of all horrific shapes and forms obscene,
  Crowd in broad day before his open eyes. 
  Southey, Roderick, etc., xvi. (1814).