(), so called from his grasping and
ambitious character, was the younger son of Antiochus II., king of Syria. On the death of his
father in B. C. 246, Antiochus waged war upon his brother Seleucus
Callinicus, in order to obtain Asia Minor for himself as an independent kingdom. This war
lasted for many years, but Antiochus was at length entirely defeated, chiefly through the
efforts of Attalus, king of Pergamus, who drove him out of Asia Minor. Antiochus subsequently
fled to Egypt, where he was killed by robbers in B. C. 227. He
married a daughter of Zielas, king of Bithynia. (Just. 27.2, 3; Polyaen. 4.17; Plut. Mor. p. 489a.; Euseb. Chron. Arm. pp. 346, 347 ; Clinton, F. H. iii. pp. 311, 312, 413.) Apollo is represented on the reverse of the
annexed coin. (Eckhel, iii. p. 219.)