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Antionum, Land of.
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Antipas, Mount.

Cumorah (A. C. 385). He and his whole command perished.

ANTIONUM, LAND OF. A district of country east of the Sidon, inhabited by the Zoramites (B. C. 75). Thither Alma and his brethren repaired to convince them of their errors. The mission was not altogether successful. Those who believed were driven out of the land and found a refuge among the Ammonites in Jershon. The unconverted Zoramites joined the Lamanites, who, the next year, occupied Antionum with an army. To confront this force the Nephites placed an army in Jershon. The Lamanites did not consider themselves equal to attacking the Nephites, and changed the plan of their campaign. They retired from Antionum into the wilderness, with the intention of invading Manti, in which purpose they were thwarted by Moroni and disastrously defeated by his troops. This land appears to have been of considerable extent, stretching from the great southern wilderness to Jershon on the north; the land of Zarahemla formed its western border, while on the east it extended indefinitely into the great eastern wilderness.


ANTIPARAH. A Nephite city on the southwest border, not far from the Pacific Ocean, which fell into the hands of the Lamanites in the long war inaugurated by Amalickiah. They stationed a powerful garrison there; but afterwards evacuated it to strengthen other Nephite cities which they had captured (B. C. 64). In after years it undoubtedly again fell into the hands of the Lamanites, as at the time of their invasion of the land of Zarahemla, (B. C. 35).


ANTIPAS, MOUNT. A mountain, locality uncertain, but somewhere within the borders of the Lamanites. It was chosen by Lehonti and those who refused to heed the Lamanite king's war proclamation, as their place of rendezvous. They gathered to its summit; Amalickiah, by the