Antĭŏchēa | Antĭŏchīa (noun F) : or (like Alexandrēa, Alexandrīa, q. v.; cf. Prisc. p. 588 P., and Ochsn. Eclog. 143), , , = Ἀντιόχεια
* Antioch.
* The name of several cities.
* The most distinguished is that founded by Seleucus Nicator, and named after his father Antiochus; the chief town of Syria, on the Orontes, now Antakia, Just. 15, 4; Cic. Arch. 3, 4; cf. Mann. Syr. 363.
* The province of Syria, in which Antiochia, on the Orontes, was situated, Plin. 5, 12, 13, § 66; Mel. 1, 11, 12.
* In Mesopotamia, afterwards called Edessa, Plin. 5, 24, 21, § 86.
* In Mygdonia (Mesopotamia), Ἀντιόχεια ὴ Μυγδονική, now Nisibin, Plin. 6, 13, 16, § 42.
* In Macedonia; its inhabitants, Antiochienses, Plin. 4, 10, 17, § 35.