A dictionary of Greek and Roman . uennial games, which the Roman emperorHadrian instituted in honour of his favourite,Antinous, after he was drowned in the Nile, or,according to others, had sacrificed himself for hissovereign, in a fit of religious fanaticism. Thefestivals were celebrated in Bithynia, and at Man-tineia, in which places he was worshipped as agod. (Spartian. Hadrian, c. 14 ; Dion 10 ; Paus. viii. 9. § 4.) [L. S.] ANTIPHERNA (avri^epva). [Dos.] ANTIQUARIL [Librarii.] ANTLIA (avrXia), any machine for raisingwater ; a pump. The annexed figure shows amachine
A dictionary of Greek and Roman . uennial games, which the Roman emperorHadrian instituted in honour of his favourite,Antinous, after he was drowned in the Nile, or,according to others, had sacrificed himself for hissovereign, in a fit of religious fanaticism. Thefestivals were celebrated in Bithynia, and at Man-tineia, in which places he was worshipped as agod. (Spartian. Hadrian, c. 14 ; Dion 10 ; Paus. viii. 9. § 4.) [L. S.] ANTIPHERNA (avri^epva). [Dos.] ANTIQUARIL [Librarii.] ANTLIA (avrXia), any machine for raisingwater ; a pump. The annexed figure shows amachine which is still used on the river Eissachin the Tyrol, the ancient Atagis. As the currentputs the wheel in motion, the jars on its marginare successively immersed and filled with they reach the top, the water is sent into ANTLIA. * a trough, from which it is conveyed to a distance,and chiefly used for irrigation. Lucretius (v. 517) mentions a machine con-tracted on this principle : — Ut fluvios versarerotas atque haustra In situations where the water was at rest, as ina pond or a well, or where the current was tooslow and feeble to put the machine in motion, itwas constructed so as to be wrought by animalforce, and slaves or criminals were commonly em-ployed for the purpose (els avrXiav KaraSiKa-aQrivai, Artemid. Oneiroc. i. 50 ; in antliam con-demnare, Suet. Tib. 51.) Five such machines aredescribed, by Vitravius, in addition to that which hasbeen already explained, and which, as he observes,was turned sine operarum calcatura, ipsius fluminisimpulsu. These five were, 1. the tympanum ; atread-wheel, wrought hominibus calcantibus: 2. awheel resembling that in the preceding figure ; buthaving, instead of pots, wooden boxes or buckets(modioli quadrati), so arranged as to form steps forthose who trod the wheel: 3. the chain-pump :4. the cochlea, or Archimedes screw : and 5. thectesibica machina, or forcing-pump. (Vitruv. —7; Drieberg, Pneum. Erfindungen
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