Antipatris - a city built by
Herod the Great, and called by this name in
honour of his father,
Antipater II of Judea[?]. It lay between
Caesarea and
Lydda, two miles inland, on the great Roman road from Caesarea to
Jerusalem. To this place
Paul was brought by night (Acts 23:31) on his way to Caesarea, from which it was distant 28
miles. It is identified with the modern, Ras-el-Ain, where rise the springs of Aujeh, the largest springs in
Palestine.
From Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)