Antiphrae
Ἀντίφραι
Antiphrae (Ἀντίφραι, Strab. xvii. p.799; Ἀντίφρα, Steph. B. sub voce 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. i. p. 33, Lucan 10.160).
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. 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.