ANTINORI, .AIARCHESE ORAZIO ( 1811-82). An Italian zoologist and African ex plorer. born at Perugia. He went. to Egypt in 1859. and with Carlo Poggia explored the Upper Nile country. In the Butietin of the Italian Geographical Society, of which he became one of the founders in 1867, he gives an interesting account of his travels through Nubia. lie made a tour through Bogoland, north of Abyssinia, after the opening of the Suez Canal, and in ISM went to Tunis to investigate the practicability of Boudaire's plan for flooding a portion of the• Sahara Desert in order to establish communi cation with the Mediterranean. He headed an important expedition to Short in 1876, and gave the first definite information concerning the zo ology of that country.
ANTIN'OtiS (Gk. 'Aerienat, .1 ntinnos). A beautiful youth of Clandiopolis. in Bithynia. He was page to the Emperor Hadrian, and the object of his extravagant affection, accompanying him in all his travels, but was either drowned acciden tally in the river Nile, or, as some suppose, com mitted suicide from a loathing of the life he led.
in 122 A.D. His memory and the grief of the Emperor were perpetuated by many beautiful statues and bas-reliefs, of Ivhieh several have been found in the villa of Hadrian near Tivoli ITibur). "In all the figures of Antinoiis," says Winekelmann, "the face has a rather melancholy expression; the eyes are large, with fine outlines; the profile is gently sloped downward; and the mouth and chin are especially beautiful." The city of Mesa. in the Thebafs. near which Antinofis was drowned, was also rebuilt by Hadrian, and the name of AntinoOpolis conferred upon it, in memory of his favorite. Antinoils was further enrolled among the gods, and iemides erected to him in Egypt and Greece. Antinotis is a charae ter in two historical romances, by Tay lor. translated from the German by Safford (New York. 18:42), and The Emperor (Der liai.s.cr), by Ebers (Stuttgart, 1580), done into English by Clara Bell.