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Antipater

Ἀντίπατρος

(Ἀντίπατρος), bishop of BOSTRA in Arabia, flourished about 460 A. D. His chief work was Ἀντίρρησις, a reply to Pamphilus's Apology for Origen, some fragments of which are contained in the Acts of the 2nd council of Nice. He also wrote a homily on John the Baptist, and some other discourses. (Fabric. Bibl. Graec. x. p. 518; Cave, Hist. Litt. sub ann. 460.)

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.