(), literary.
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With the praenomen ANTONIUS, the author of a Greek romance, whom
some critics have placed soon after the time of Alexander, while others, and with more probability, have placed him in the second or
third century after Christ. His age was unknown even to Photius, who has preserved (Cod. 166) an outline of his romance. It consisted of twenty-four books,
was written in the form of a dialogue about travels, and bore the title of