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as he touched the earth; and every time he was lifted from it, was renewed by touching it again. (See Maleger.)

"As once Antæos, on the Libyan strand,
More fierce recovered when he reached the sand."
Hoole's Ariosto, book iv.

It was Hercules who succeeded in killing this charmed giant. He

Lifts proud Antæos from his mother's plains,
And with strong grasp the struggling giant strains;
Back falls his panting head and clammy hair,
Writhe his weak limbs and flits his life in air."
Darwin: Economy of Vegetation.

Antecedents I know nothing of his antecedents - his previous life, character, or conduct. (Latin, antecedens, foregoing.)

Antediluvian Before the Deluge, meaning the Scripture Deluge.

Anthia The lady-love of Abrocomas in Xenophon's romance, called Ephesiaca. Shakespeare has borrowed from this Greek novel the leading incidents of his Romeo and Juliet , especially that of the potion and mock entombment. N.B. This is not the historian, but a Xenophon who lived in the fourth Christian century.

Anthony Anthony (St.). Patron saint of swineherds, because he always lived in woods and forests.

St. Anthony's Cross. The taucross, T, called a lace.

St. Anthony's Fire. Erysipelas is so called from the tradition that those who sought the intercession of St. Anthony recovered from the pestilential erysipelas called the sacred fire, which proved extremely fatal in 1089.

St. Anthony's Pig A pet pig, the smallest of the whole litter. St. Anthony was originally a swineherd, and, therefore, the patron saint of pigs.