He was the first who endeavoured to impart to Roman history the ornaments of style, and to make it more than a mere chronicle of events, but his diction was rather vehement and high-sounding than elegant and polished.
He wrote a history of the Second Punic War, and composed annals, which were epitomized by Brutus.
[3] Antipater followed the Greek history of Silenus Calatinus,[4] and occasionally borrowed from the Origines of Cato the Elder.
Orelli[6] refers to the dissertations on Antipater by Bavius Antius Nauta and G. Groen van Prinsterer, inserted in the Annals of the Academy of Leyderi for 1821.
His fragments, several of which are preserved by Nonius Marcellus, are to be found appended to editions of Sallust by Joseph Wasse, Corte, and Havercamp; and also in Krause's Vitae et Fragmenta vet.