ANTIOCH, OF PISIDIA an'-ti-ok, pi-sid'-i-a (Antiocheia pros
Pisidia, or aAntiocheia he Pisidia = "Pisidian"). (1) Antioch of
Pisidia was so called to distinguish it from the many other
cities of the same name founded by Seleucus Nicator (301-280 BC)
and called after his father Antiochus. It was situated in a
strong position, on a plateau close to the western bank of the
river Anthios, which flows down from the Sultan Dagh to the
double lake called Limnai (Egerdir Gol). It was planted on the
territory of a great estate belonging to the priests of the
native religion; the remaining portions of this estate belonged
later to the Roman emperors, and many inscriptions connected
with the cult of the emperors, who succeeded to the Divine as
well as to the temporal rights of the god, have survived. (See
Sir W. M. Ramsay's paper on "The Tekmoreian Guest-Friends" in
Studies in the History and Art of the Eastern Roman Provinces,
1906.) The plateau on which Antioch stood commands one of the
roads leading from the East to