A dictionary of Greek and Roman . colano, vol. i. p. 257.) [J. Y.] ANTOMOSIA (ai/rafioffla). [Anakrisis,p. 92, a ; Paragraphe.] ANTYX (ai/Tu|, probably allied etymologicallyto £), the rim or border of any thing, espe-cially of a shield, or chariot. The rim of the largeround shield of the ancient Greeks was thinnerthan the part which it enclosed. Thus the orna-mental border of the shield of Achilles, fabricatedby Hephaestus, was only threefold, the shield itselfbeing sevenfold. (77. xviii. 479 ; comp. xx. 275.)See examples of the antyx of a shield in woodcutsto Antefixa, Arm
A dictionary of Greek and Roman . colano, vol. i. p. 257.) [J. Y.] ANTOMOSIA (ai/rafioffla). [Anakrisis,p. 92, a ; Paragraphe.] ANTYX (ai/Tu|, probably allied etymologicallyto £), the rim or border of any thing, espe-cially of a shield, or chariot. The rim of the largeround shield of the ancient Greeks was thinnerthan the part which it enclosed. Thus the orna-mental border of the shield of Achilles, fabricatedby Hephaestus, was only threefold, the shield itselfbeing sevenfold. (77. xviii. 479 ; comp. xx. 275.)See examples of the antyx of a shield in woodcutsto Antefixa, Arma, Clipeus. On the other hand, the antyx of a chariot musthave been thicker than the body to which it wasattached, and to which it gave both form andstrength. For the same reason, it was often madedouble, as in the chariot of Hera. (Aoial 8e avrvyes etVi, 11. v. 728.) It rose in frontof a chariot in a curved form, on which the reinsmight be hung. {11. v. 262, 322.) A simple formof it is exhibited in the annexed woodcut from the. work of Carloni. Sometimes antyx is used tosignify the chariot itself. [J. Y.] APAGELI (airdytXoi). [Agela.]APAGOGE (aiTaywyri). [Endeixis.]APATURIA {hwaTovpia), was a political festi-val, which the Athenians had in common with allthe Greeks of the Ionian name (Herod, i. 147),with the exception of those of Colophon andEphesus. It was celebrated in the month ofPyanepsion, and lasted for three days. The ori-gin of this festival is related in the following man-ner : —About the year 1100 B. c, the Athenianswere carrying on a war against the Boeotians, con-cerning the district of Cilaenae, or, according toothers, respecting the little town of Boeotian Xanthius, or Xanthus, challengedThymoetes, king of Attica, to single combat ;and when he refused, Melanthus, a Messenianexile of the house of the Nelids, offered himselfto fight for Thymoetes, on condition that, if vic-torious, he should be the successor to offer was ac
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