Antiphrae

ANTIPHRAE

ANTIPHRAE (Ἀντίφραι, Strab. 17. p. 799; Ἀντίφρα, Steph. B., Ptol.; Ἀντιφρώ, Hierocl. p. 734: Eth. Ἀντιφραῖος), a small inland town of the Libyae Nomos, not far from the sea, and a little W. of Alexandria, celebrated for its poor Libyan wine, which was drunk by the lower classes of Alexandria mixed with sea-water, and which seems to have been an inferior description of the Mareotic wine of Virgil and Horace (Georg. 2.91, Carm. 1.37.14; comp. Ath. 1. p. 33, Lucan (Luc. 10.160).

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