Obs. [L., a. Gr. pl. of ἀντίχθων (sc. ‘men’): see prec.] The inhabitants of the opposite side of the earth.
1601. Holland, Pliny (1634), I. 129. Many haue taken it [Ceylon] to be the place of the Antipodes, calling it the Antichthones world.
1684. T. Burnet, Th. Earth, I. 255. Those two hemispheres were then as two distinct worlds … this opposite earth being call’d by them antichthon, and its inhabitants antichthones.
1751. Chambers, Cycl., Antichthones … much the same with what we more usually call Antipodes.
