Antinomy
the opposition of one law or rule to another law or rule; in the Kantian philosophy, that natural contradiction which results from the law of reason, when passing the limits of experience, we seek to conceive the complex of external phenomena, or nature, as a world or cosmos.
ANTINOUS (an-tin'ō-us), a young Bithynian whom the extravagant love of Hadrian has immortalized. He drowned himself in the Nile in 122 A. D. Hadrian set no bounds to his grief for his loss.
He gave his name to a newly-discovered star, erected temples in his honor, called a city after him, and caused him to be adored as a god throughout the empire. Statues, busts, etc., of him are numerous.
ANTIOCH (an'ti-ok), a famous city of ancient times, the capital of the Greek kings of Syria, on the left bank of the Orontes, about 21 miles from the sea, in a beautiful and fertile plain; founded by Seleucus Nicator in 300 B. c., and named after his father, Antiochus. In Roman times it was the seat of the Syrian governors, and the center of a widely extended commerce. In the first half of the 7th century it was taken by the Saracens, and in 1098 by the Crusaders.
They established the principality of Antioch, of which the first ruler was Bohemond, and which lasted till 1268, when it was taken by the Mameluke Sultan of Egypt. In 1516 it passed into the hands of the Turks. The modern Antioch, or Antakieh, occupies but a small portion of the site of the ancient Antioch. Pop. ⚫about 30,000. There was another Antioch, in Pisidia, at which Paul preached on his first missionary journey.
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