ANTISCIANS

, or ANTISCII, in Geography, are people who dwell in the opposite hemispheres of the earth, as to north and south, and whose shadows at noon fall in contrary directions. This term is more general than antæci, with which it is often confounded. The Antiscians stand contradistinguished from Periscians.

Antiscii is also used sometimes, among Astrologers, for two points of the heavens equally distant from the tropics. Thus the signs Leo and Taurus are accounted antiscii to each other.

ANTŒCI, see Antecians.