Antoninus Liberalis is not alone in hinting that Leto came down from the land of the Hyperboreans in the guise of a she-wolf, or that she sought out the " wolf-country " of Lycia, formerly called Tremilis, which she renamed to honour wolves that had befriended her for her denning.

One of these springs was upon the Muses ' Mount Helicon, the Hippocrene (" horse spring "), opened, Antoninus Liberalis suggested, at the behest of Poseidon to prevent the mountain swelling with rapture at the song of the Muses ; another was at Troezen.

* Antoninus Liberalis writes a work on mythology ( Μεταμορφωσεων Συναγωγη ) ( approximate date ).

According to a later tradition preserved in Antoninus Liberalis, Aëdon is instead the wife of Polytechnos, an artist of Colophon.

In the second or third century AD, Antoninus Liberalis tells of another Aegyptos, who was a young man of Thessaly.

A similar tale is told by Antoninus Liberalis, although he names the maiden Arsinoe, and her lover Arceophon.

Antoninus Liberalis said that Iphigenia was transported to the island of Leuke, where she was wedded to immortalized Achilles under the name of Orsilochia.

Several alternate versions appeared in the Bibliotheca, the Fabulae of Hyginus, and the Metamorphoses of Antoninus Liberalis, with major variations depicting Myrrha's father as the Assyrian king Theias or depicting Aphrodite as having engineered the tragic liaison.

Among the scholars who recounted it are Apollodorus, Hyginus, and Antoninus Liberalis.

In the Metamorphoses by Antoninus Liberalis, written somewhere in the 2nd or 3rd century A. D., the myth is set in Phoenicia, near Mount Lebanon.

Yet another Cycnus was a son of Apollo by Hyrie or Thyrie, daughter of Amphinomus ; the story concerning him is recorded by Antoninus Liberalis.

Plutarch, Aelian, and Antoninus Liberalis, though with some differences in the detail, relate that Dionysus appeared to the sisters in the form of a maiden, and invited them to partake in the Dionysian Mysteries.

* Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses, 2

According to Antoninus Liberalis, Cerambus was punished for claiming that the nymphs of Mount Othrys were daughters of Spercheus by Deino.

The account of Antoninus Liberalis makes Galinthias a daughter of the Theban Proetus, and a playmate of Alcmene.

Among his lost works, Heteroeumena was a mythological epic, used by Ovid in the Metamorphoses and epitomized by Antoninus Liberalis ; Georgica, of which considerable fragments survive, was perhaps imitated by Virgil.

He also edited ( 1568 ) the geographical lexicon of Stephanus of Byzantium ; the travels of Pausanias ( completed after his death by Friedrich Sylburg, 1583 ); the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius ( 1558, the editio princeps based on a Heidelberg manuscript now lost ; a second edition in 1568 with the addition of Antoninus Liberalis, Phlegon of Tralles, an unknown Apollonius, and Antigonus of Carystus -- all paradoxographers ); and the chronicle of George Cedrenus ( 1566 ).

Antoninus Liberalis was an Ancient Greek grammarian who probably flourished between AD 100 and 300.

The Metamorphoses of Antoninus Liberalis: A Translation With Commentary, trans.

Antoninus Liberalis: Les Métamorphoses ( Paris, Budé, 1968 ) First translation into French ; extensive notes and indices, except on linguistic questions ; probably at present the standard text.

* Trzaskoma, Stephen M .. Antoninus Liberalis: three sections from Metamorphoses: Hierax ; Aigypios ; The Dorians

* Encycyclopaedia Britannica 1911: " Antoninus Liberalis ".

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One of the accusations against Antoninus, Bishop of Ephesus, in his trial before John Chrysostom was that " after separating from his married wife, he had taken her again ".

Under the first Christian emperor, Constantine, the two rescripts of Antoninus on circumcision were re-enacted and again in the 6th century under Justinian.

He acquired much favor with the Emperor Hadrian, who adopted him as his son and successor on 25 February 138, after the death of his first adopted son Lucius Aelius, on the condition that Antoninus would in turn adopt Marcus Annius Verus, the son of his wife's brother, and Lucius, son of Aelius Verus, who afterwards became the emperors Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus.

It was however in Britain that Antoninus decided to follow a new, more aggressive path, with the appointment of a new governor in 139, Quintus Lollius Urbicus.

Nevertheless, Antoninus was virtually unique among emperors in that he dealt with these crises without leaving Italy once during his reign, but instead dealt with provincial matters of war and peace through their governors or through imperial letters to the cities such as Ephesus ( of which some were publicly displayed ).

He had a close friendship with " Antoninus ", possibly Antoninus Pius, who would consult Rabbi Judah on various worldly and spiritual matters.

The second occupation was probably connected with Antoninus ' undertakings to protect the Votadini or his pride in enlarging the empire, since the retreat to the Hadrianic frontier occurred not long after his death when a more objective strategic assessment of the benefits of the Antonine Wall could be made.

He had a close friendship with " Antoninus ", possibly the Emperor Antoninus Pius, who would consult Judah on various worldly and spiritual matters.

Gregory responded by depriving Peter of both sees, and he wrote to the people of the diocese, reminding them to only elect bishops in accordance with church law, whereupon they elected Antoninus, with Gregory ’ s approval.

* The Tomb of Hadrian in Rome is completed, emperor Antoninus Pius cremates the body of Hadrian and placed his ashes together with that of his wife Vibia Sabina and his adopted son, Lucius Aelius in the mausoleum.

* Lucius Septimius Bassianus ( Caracalla ), age 7, changed his name to Marcus Aurelius Antoninus to solidify connections with the family of Marcus Aurelius and is given the title Caesar.

* March 7 – Emperor Antoninus Pius dies and is succeeded by Marcus Aurelius who shares imperial power with Lucius Verus, although Marcus retains the title Pontifex Maximus.

Her father's Roman name was Julius Aurelius Zenobius, with the gentilicium Aurelius showing that his paternal ancestors received Roman citizenship under either Antoninus Pius ( reigned 138 – 161 ), Marcus Aurelius ( reigned 161 – 180 ) or Commodus ( reigned 180 – 192 ).

Unlike the preceding Emperors Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius, he seems to have had little interest in the business of administration and tended throughout his reign to leave the practical running of the state to a succession of favourites, beginning at this time with Saoterus, a freedman from Nicomedia who had become his chamberlain.

Caracalla was present and was then proclaimed co-emperor with his brother Publius Septimius Antoninus Geta.

The bulk of the letters consist of correspondence with Antoninus Pius, Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, in which the character of Fronto's pupils appears in a very favourable light, especially in the affection they both seem to have retained for their old master There are also letters to friends, chiefly letters of recommendation, but including one ( Ad amicos 1.

Rehabilitated with the ascension of Antoninus Pius in 138, Favorinus returned to Rome, where he resumed his activities as an author and teacher of upper class pupils.

The apostle Paul claimed rank and privilege as a Roman citizen on account of his birth at Tarsus ; the Caledonian tribes in the south of Scotland were invested with the same rights by an edict of Antoninus Pius.

No actual lance is known until the pilgrim Antoninus of Piacenza ( AD 570 ), describing the holy places of Jerusalem, says that he saw in the Basilica of Mount Zion " the crown of thorns with which Our Lord was crowned and the lance with which He was struck in the side ".