Antipater
Proper noun
Meaning
Antipater
(historical) A Macedonian general in the time of Alexander the Great.
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Examples
A large Macedonian army under general Antipater marched to its relief and defeated the Spartan-led force in a pitched battle.
Antipater referred the Spartans' punishment to the League of Corinth, which then deferred to Alexander, who chose to pardon them.
But, O gracious Neptune, I, for my part, while I am yet alive, arise up and depart out of this sacred place; though Antipater and the Macedonians have not left so much as the temple unpolluted."
Antipater uses misogunia to describe Euripides ' usual writing—tēn misogunian en tō graphein (τὴν μισογυνίαν ἐν τῷ γράφειν "the misogyny in the writing").
But there appears to be confusion in the Anthology between Antipater of Sidon and Antipater of Thessalonice, who lived in the next century.
Cicero describes Antipater as living at Rome in the time of Crassus and Catulus.