Matthaei
in his Collection of Pharnabazus.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a
xiv.
p.
700.
) born at Tarsus in Cilicia, and lived perhaps in the
He must therefore have lived about the third cen- first or second century after Christ. His prescrip
tury B. C. , and is probably the same person who is tions are several times quoted by Galen. (De
called “ Apollonius Stratonicus. " He wrote a work Compos. Medicam. sec. Gen. v. 13, vol. xii. p. 843. )
“ On the Names of the Parts of the Human Body" 21. APOLLONIUS THER (d One) is supposed by
(Gal. l. C. , and Definit. prooem. vol. xix. p. 347), some persons to be the same as Apollonius Ophis,
and is quoted by Erotianus (Gloss. Hipp. p. 86), or Apollonius Pergamenus. As he is quoted by
Galen (De Antid. ii. 14, vol. xiv. p. 188), Nico Erotianus (Gloss. Hipp. p. 86), he must bave
laus Myrepsus (De Aur. cc. 11, 16. pp. 831, 832), lived in or before the first century after Christ.
and other ancient writers.
22. Another physician of this name, who is
13. APOLLONIUS Mus (Mûs), a follower of mentioned by Apuleius (Met. ix. init. ) as having
Herophilus, of whose life no particulars are known, been bitten by a mad dog, must (if he ever really
but who must have lived in the first century B. C. , existed) have lived in the second century after
as Strabo mentions him as a contemporary. (xiv. Christ ; and the name occurs in several ancient
1, p. 182, ed. Tauchn. ) He was a fellow-pupil | authors, belonging to one or more physicians,
of Heracleides of Erythrae (ibid. ), and composed without any distinguishing epithet. [W. A. G. )
a long work on the opinions of the sect founded APOLLO'PHANES ('ATOA dopávns). 1. Of
by Herophilus. (Cael. Aurel. De Morb. Acut. ii. | ANTIOCH, a Stoic philosopher, was a friend of
13, p. 110; Gal. De Differ. Puls. iv. 10, vol. viii. Ariston of Chios, on whom he wrote a work called
pp. 744, 746. ) He also wrote on pharmacy (Cels. 'Aplotwr. (Athen. vii. p. 281. ) Diogenes Laërtius
De Med. v. praef. p. 81 ; Pallad. Comm. in Hipp. (vii. 140, comp. 92) mentions a work of his called
Epid. VI. ," ap. Dietz, Schol. in Hipp. et Gal. Puoinh. His name also occurs in Tertullian. (De
vol. ii. p. 98; Gal. De Antid. ii. 7, 8, vol. xiv. Anim. 14. ) Some writers have asserted, though
pp. 143, 146), and is supposed to be the same without any good reason, that Apollophanes the
person who is sometimes called “ Apollonius Hero Stoic was the same as A pollophanes the physician
phileius. "
who lived at the court of Antiochus. A later Stoic
14. APOLLONIUS Ophis (6 'Opis) is said by philosopher of this name occurs in Socrates (Hist.
Erotianus (Gloss. Hipp. p. 8) to have made a com- Eccl. vi. 19) and in Suidas (s. v. 'Apoyérns; comp.
pilation from the Glossary of difficult Hippocratic Ruhnken, Dissert. de Vita et Script. Longini, seci. vii. )
words by Baccheius; he must therefore have lived 2. Of ATHENS, a poet of the old Attic comedy
about the first or second century B. C. He is sup- (Suid. ), appears to have been a contemporary of
posed by some persons to be Apollonius Pergame- Strattis, and to have consequently lived about 01.
nus, by others Apollonius Ther.
95. (Harpocrat. 8. v. dderoíčerv. ) Suidas ascribes
15. APOLLONIUS ORGANICus ('Οργανικός) is to him five comedies, viz. Δάλις, Ιφιγέρων, Κρήτες,
quoted by Galen (De Compos. Medicam. sec. Loc. Aavan and Kertaupou. Of the former three we
v. 15, vol. xiii. p. 856), and must therefore have still possess a few fragments, but the last two are
lived in or before the second century after Christ. completely lost. (Athen. iii. pp. 75, 114, xi. pp.
Nothing is known of his life.
467, 485; Phot. Ler. s. 0. HVO kápons; Aelian,
16. APOLLONIUS PERGAMENUS (Tlepyáunvos) Hist. Ann. vi. 51; Phot. p. 624; Meineke, Hist.
is supposed by some persons to be Apollonius Crit. Comic. Graec. p. 266, &c. )
Ophis, or Apollonius Ther. He was born at Per- 3. Of Cyzicus, was connected by friendship with
gamus in Mysia, but his date is very uncertain, the Persian satrap Pharnabazus, and afterwards
since it can only be positively determined that, as he formed a similar connexion with Agesilaus. Soon
is quoted by Oribasius, he must have lived in or be after this, Pharnabazus requested him to persuade
fore the fourth century after Christ. (Orib. Eupor. Agesilaus to meet bim, which was done accord-
ad Eun. i. 9, p. 578. ) He is probably the author ingly. (Xenoph. Heilen. iv. 1. & 29 ; Plut. Agesil.
of rather a long extract on Scarification preserved 12. ) This happened in B. c. 396, shortly before
by Oribasius (Med. Coll. vii. 19, 20, p. 316), which the withdrawal of Agesilaus from the satrapy of
is published by C. F.
Matthaei in his Collection of Pharnabazus.
(L. S. ]
Greek Medical Writers, entitled XXI. Veterum et APOLLO'PHANES ('ATOMXopávns), a native
Clarorum Medicorum Graecorum Varia Opuscula, of Seleuceia, and physician to Antiochus the Great,
Mosqu. 1808, 410. , p. 344.
king of Syria, B. C. 223-187, with whom, as ap-
66
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APPIANUS.
247
APPIANUS.
pears from Polybius (v. 56, 58), he possessed con- We know, from a letter of Fronto, that it was the
siderable influence. Mcad, in his Dissert. de office of procurator which he held (Fronto, Ep. ad
Nummis quibusdam a Smyrnucis in Medicorum Anton. Pium, 9, p. 13, &c. , ed. Niebuhr); but
Honorem percussis, Lond. 1724, 4to. , thinks that whether he had the management of the emperors'
two bronze coins, struck in honour of a person finances at Rome, or went to some province in this
named A pollophanes, refer to the physician of this capacity, is quite uncertain.
name; but this is now generally considered to be Appian wrote a Roman history (“Pwuaïra, or
a mistake. (See Dict. of Ant. s. c. Medicus. ) A 'Pwpaint iotopia) in twenty-four books, on a plan
physician of the same name is mentioned by several different from that of most historians. He did not
ancient medical writers. (Fabricius, Bill. Gr. treat the history of the Roman empire as a whole
vol. xiii. p. 76, ed. vet. ; C. G. Kühn, Additam. in chronological order, following the series of
ad Elenchum Medicorum Veterum a Jo. A. Fabri- events; but he gave a separate account of the
cio, fa, exhibitum, Lips. 4to. , 1826. Fascic. iii. affairs of each country from the time that it became
p. 8. )
(W. A. G. ) connected with the Romans, till it was finally in-
APOLLOʻTHEMIS ('Aromboeuis), a Greek corporated in the Roman empire. The first foreign
historian, whom Plutarch made use of in his life of people with whom the Romans came in contact
Lycurgus. (c. 31. )
were the Gauls; and consequently his history,
APOMYIUS ('Ambuvios) “ driving away the according to his plan, would have begun with that
flies," a surname of Zeus at Olympia On one people. But in order to make the work a complete
occasion, when Jeracles was offering a sacrifice to history of Rome, he devoted the first three books
Zeus at Olympia, he was annoyed by hosts of flies, to an account of the early times and of the various
and in order to get rid of them, he offered a sacri- nations of Italy which Rome subdued. The sub-
fice to Ze Apomyius, whereupon the flies with jects of the different books were: 1. The kingly
drew across the river Alpheius. From that time period ('Pwuaïrwv Baoihin). 2. Italy ('Italu).
the Eleans sacrificed to Zeus under this name. 3. The Samnites (SavvITIT,. 4. The Gauls or
(Paus. v. 14. & 2. )
[L. S. ] Celts (KeATiH). 5. Sicily and the other islands
APONIA'NUS, DI'LLIUS, joined Antonius (ELKEND) Kal NDO IwTiH). 6. Spain ('16mpuan).
Primus with the third legion, A. D. 70. (Tac. Hist. 7. Hannibal's wars ('Avvibaïna). 8. Libya, Car-
iü. 10, 11. )
thage, and Numidia (Λιβυκή, Καρχηδονική και
Q. APOʻNIUS, was one of the commanders of the Nomadiń). 9. Macedonia (Makedovan). 10.
troops which revolted, in B. C. 46, from Trebonius, Greece and the Greek slates in Asia Minor ('EXA7-
Caesar's lieutenant in Spain. (Dion Cass. xliii. 29. ) VICT) Kaj 'lwvikh). 11. Syria and Parthia (Euplamh
Aponius was proscribed by the triumvirs in B. C. 43, kad Mapouch). 12. The war with Mithridates
and put to death. (Appian, B. C. iv. 26. )
(Μιθριδάτειος). 13-21. The civil wars (Εμφύ-
APOʻNIUS MU'TILUS. [MUTILUS. ] Aia), in nine books, from those of Marius and
APOʻNIUS SATURNI'NUS. (SATURNINUS. ] Sulla to the battle of Actium. The last four books
APOTROPAEI ('Αποτρόπαιοι), certain divini- | also had the title of τα Αίγυπτιακά. 22. Εκατον-
ties, by whose assistance the Greeks believed that Taetia, comprised the history of a hundred years,
they were able to avert any threatening danger or from the battle of Actium to the beginning of
calamity. Their statues stood at Sicyon near the Vespasian's reign. 23. The wars with Illyria
tomb of Epopeus. (Paus. ü. 11. & 2. ) The Romans ('iriupunń or Aamiń). 24. Those with Arabia
likewise worshipped gods of this kind, and called 'Apabios). We possess only eleven of these com-
them di averrunci, derived from averruncare. plete ; namely, the sixth, seventh, eighth, eleventh,
(Varro, de L. L. vii. 102; Gellius, v. 12. ) [L. S. ] twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth,
APOTROʻPHIA ('Arotpoola), “ the expeller," seventeenth, and twenty-third. There are also
a surname of Aphrodite, under which she was fragments of several of the others. The Parthian
worshipped at Thebes, and which described her as history, which has come down to us as part of the
the goddess who expelled from the hearts of men eleventh book, has been proved by Schweighäuser
the desire after sinful pleasure and lust. Her to be no work of Appian, but merely a compilation
worship under this name was believed to have from Plutarch's Lives of Anwny and Crassus, pro-
been instituted by Harmonia, together with that bably made in the middle ages. (See Schweighau-
of Aphrodite Urania and Pandemos, and the anti- ser's Appian, vol. iii. p. 905, &c. )
quity of her statues confirmed this belief. (Paus. Appian's work is a mere compilation. In the
ix. 16. & 2. )
(L. S. )
early times he chiefly followed Dionysius, as far as
APPIANUS ('Antiavos), a native of Alexan- the latter went, and his work makes up to a con.
dria, lived at Rome during the reigns of Trajan, siderable extent for the books of Dionysius, which
Hadrian, and Antoninus Pius, as we gather from are lost. In the history of the second Punic war
various passages in his work. We have hardly Fabius seems to have been his chief authority, and
any particulars of his life, for his autobiography, to subsequently he made use of Polybius. His style
which he refers at the end of the preface to his is clear and simple; but he possesses few merits as
history, is now lost. In the same passage he men- an historian, and he frequently makes the most
tious, that he was a man of considerable distinction absurd blunders. Thus, for instance, he places
at Alexandria, and afterwards removed to Rome, Saguntum on the north of the Iberus (Iver. 7),
where he was engaged in pleading causes in the and states that it takes only half a day to sail
courts of the emperors. He further states, that the from Spain to Britain. (Iber. 1. ).
emperors considered him worthy to be entrusted Appian's history was first published in a barba-
with the management of their affairs (Méxpı we rous Latin translation by Candidus, at Venice, in
oow & IT POT EVEN titiwoax); which Schweigbäuser 1472. A part of the Greek text was first pub-
and others interpret to mean, that he was appointed lished by Carolus Stephanus, Paris, 155); which
to the office of procurator or praefectus of Egypt. was followed by an improved Latin version by
There is, however, no reason for this supposition. Gelenius, which was published after the death of
## p. 248 (#268) ############################################
248
APPULEIUS.
APPULEIUS.
the latter at Basel, 1554. The Greek text of the 4. APPULEIUS, a praediałor, mentioned by Cicero
'I6npinti kal 'Avv. bairt was published for the first in two of his letters (ad Au. xii. 14, 17), must be
time by H. Stephanus, Geneva, 1557. Ursinus distinguished from No. 3.
published some fragments at Antwerp, 1582. The 5. M. APPULEIUS was elected augur in B. C. 45,
second edition of the Greek text was edited, with and Cicero pleaded illness as a reason for his ab-
the Latin version of Gelenius, by H. Stephanus, sence from the inaugural festival, which seems to
Geneva, 1592. The twenty-third book of Appian, have lasted several days. (Cic. ad Att. xii. 13
containing the wars with Illyria, was first publish. – 15. ) At the time of Caesar's death, B. C. 44.
ed by Hoeschelius, Augsburg, 1599, and some ad.
He must therefore have lived about the third cen- first or second century after Christ. His prescrip
tury B. C. , and is probably the same person who is tions are several times quoted by Galen. (De
called “ Apollonius Stratonicus. " He wrote a work Compos. Medicam. sec. Gen. v. 13, vol. xii. p. 843. )
“ On the Names of the Parts of the Human Body" 21. APOLLONIUS THER (d One) is supposed by
(Gal. l. C. , and Definit. prooem. vol. xix. p. 347), some persons to be the same as Apollonius Ophis,
and is quoted by Erotianus (Gloss. Hipp. p. 86), or Apollonius Pergamenus. As he is quoted by
Galen (De Antid. ii. 14, vol. xiv. p. 188), Nico Erotianus (Gloss. Hipp. p. 86), he must bave
laus Myrepsus (De Aur. cc. 11, 16. pp. 831, 832), lived in or before the first century after Christ.
and other ancient writers.
22. Another physician of this name, who is
13. APOLLONIUS Mus (Mûs), a follower of mentioned by Apuleius (Met. ix. init. ) as having
Herophilus, of whose life no particulars are known, been bitten by a mad dog, must (if he ever really
but who must have lived in the first century B. C. , existed) have lived in the second century after
as Strabo mentions him as a contemporary. (xiv. Christ ; and the name occurs in several ancient
1, p. 182, ed. Tauchn. ) He was a fellow-pupil | authors, belonging to one or more physicians,
of Heracleides of Erythrae (ibid. ), and composed without any distinguishing epithet. [W. A. G. )
a long work on the opinions of the sect founded APOLLO'PHANES ('ATOA dopávns). 1. Of
by Herophilus. (Cael. Aurel. De Morb. Acut. ii. | ANTIOCH, a Stoic philosopher, was a friend of
13, p. 110; Gal. De Differ. Puls. iv. 10, vol. viii. Ariston of Chios, on whom he wrote a work called
pp. 744, 746. ) He also wrote on pharmacy (Cels. 'Aplotwr. (Athen. vii. p. 281. ) Diogenes Laërtius
De Med. v. praef. p. 81 ; Pallad. Comm. in Hipp. (vii. 140, comp. 92) mentions a work of his called
Epid. VI. ," ap. Dietz, Schol. in Hipp. et Gal. Puoinh. His name also occurs in Tertullian. (De
vol. ii. p. 98; Gal. De Antid. ii. 7, 8, vol. xiv. Anim. 14. ) Some writers have asserted, though
pp. 143, 146), and is supposed to be the same without any good reason, that Apollophanes the
person who is sometimes called “ Apollonius Hero Stoic was the same as A pollophanes the physician
phileius. "
who lived at the court of Antiochus. A later Stoic
14. APOLLONIUS Ophis (6 'Opis) is said by philosopher of this name occurs in Socrates (Hist.
Erotianus (Gloss. Hipp. p. 8) to have made a com- Eccl. vi. 19) and in Suidas (s. v. 'Apoyérns; comp.
pilation from the Glossary of difficult Hippocratic Ruhnken, Dissert. de Vita et Script. Longini, seci. vii. )
words by Baccheius; he must therefore have lived 2. Of ATHENS, a poet of the old Attic comedy
about the first or second century B. C. He is sup- (Suid. ), appears to have been a contemporary of
posed by some persons to be Apollonius Pergame- Strattis, and to have consequently lived about 01.
nus, by others Apollonius Ther.
95. (Harpocrat. 8. v. dderoíčerv. ) Suidas ascribes
15. APOLLONIUS ORGANICus ('Οργανικός) is to him five comedies, viz. Δάλις, Ιφιγέρων, Κρήτες,
quoted by Galen (De Compos. Medicam. sec. Loc. Aavan and Kertaupou. Of the former three we
v. 15, vol. xiii. p. 856), and must therefore have still possess a few fragments, but the last two are
lived in or before the second century after Christ. completely lost. (Athen. iii. pp. 75, 114, xi. pp.
Nothing is known of his life.
467, 485; Phot. Ler. s. 0. HVO kápons; Aelian,
16. APOLLONIUS PERGAMENUS (Tlepyáunvos) Hist. Ann. vi. 51; Phot. p. 624; Meineke, Hist.
is supposed by some persons to be Apollonius Crit. Comic. Graec. p. 266, &c. )
Ophis, or Apollonius Ther. He was born at Per- 3. Of Cyzicus, was connected by friendship with
gamus in Mysia, but his date is very uncertain, the Persian satrap Pharnabazus, and afterwards
since it can only be positively determined that, as he formed a similar connexion with Agesilaus. Soon
is quoted by Oribasius, he must have lived in or be after this, Pharnabazus requested him to persuade
fore the fourth century after Christ. (Orib. Eupor. Agesilaus to meet bim, which was done accord-
ad Eun. i. 9, p. 578. ) He is probably the author ingly. (Xenoph. Heilen. iv. 1. & 29 ; Plut. Agesil.
of rather a long extract on Scarification preserved 12. ) This happened in B. c. 396, shortly before
by Oribasius (Med. Coll. vii. 19, 20, p. 316), which the withdrawal of Agesilaus from the satrapy of
is published by C. F.
Matthaei in his Collection of Pharnabazus.
(L. S. ]
Greek Medical Writers, entitled XXI. Veterum et APOLLO'PHANES ('ATOMXopávns), a native
Clarorum Medicorum Graecorum Varia Opuscula, of Seleuceia, and physician to Antiochus the Great,
Mosqu. 1808, 410. , p. 344.
king of Syria, B. C. 223-187, with whom, as ap-
66
.
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APPIANUS.
247
APPIANUS.
pears from Polybius (v. 56, 58), he possessed con- We know, from a letter of Fronto, that it was the
siderable influence. Mcad, in his Dissert. de office of procurator which he held (Fronto, Ep. ad
Nummis quibusdam a Smyrnucis in Medicorum Anton. Pium, 9, p. 13, &c. , ed. Niebuhr); but
Honorem percussis, Lond. 1724, 4to. , thinks that whether he had the management of the emperors'
two bronze coins, struck in honour of a person finances at Rome, or went to some province in this
named A pollophanes, refer to the physician of this capacity, is quite uncertain.
name; but this is now generally considered to be Appian wrote a Roman history (“Pwuaïra, or
a mistake. (See Dict. of Ant. s. c. Medicus. ) A 'Pwpaint iotopia) in twenty-four books, on a plan
physician of the same name is mentioned by several different from that of most historians. He did not
ancient medical writers. (Fabricius, Bill. Gr. treat the history of the Roman empire as a whole
vol. xiii. p. 76, ed. vet. ; C. G. Kühn, Additam. in chronological order, following the series of
ad Elenchum Medicorum Veterum a Jo. A. Fabri- events; but he gave a separate account of the
cio, fa, exhibitum, Lips. 4to. , 1826. Fascic. iii. affairs of each country from the time that it became
p. 8. )
(W. A. G. ) connected with the Romans, till it was finally in-
APOLLOʻTHEMIS ('Aromboeuis), a Greek corporated in the Roman empire. The first foreign
historian, whom Plutarch made use of in his life of people with whom the Romans came in contact
Lycurgus. (c. 31. )
were the Gauls; and consequently his history,
APOMYIUS ('Ambuvios) “ driving away the according to his plan, would have begun with that
flies," a surname of Zeus at Olympia On one people. But in order to make the work a complete
occasion, when Jeracles was offering a sacrifice to history of Rome, he devoted the first three books
Zeus at Olympia, he was annoyed by hosts of flies, to an account of the early times and of the various
and in order to get rid of them, he offered a sacri- nations of Italy which Rome subdued. The sub-
fice to Ze Apomyius, whereupon the flies with jects of the different books were: 1. The kingly
drew across the river Alpheius. From that time period ('Pwuaïrwv Baoihin). 2. Italy ('Italu).
the Eleans sacrificed to Zeus under this name. 3. The Samnites (SavvITIT,. 4. The Gauls or
(Paus. v. 14. & 2. )
[L. S. ] Celts (KeATiH). 5. Sicily and the other islands
APONIA'NUS, DI'LLIUS, joined Antonius (ELKEND) Kal NDO IwTiH). 6. Spain ('16mpuan).
Primus with the third legion, A. D. 70. (Tac. Hist. 7. Hannibal's wars ('Avvibaïna). 8. Libya, Car-
iü. 10, 11. )
thage, and Numidia (Λιβυκή, Καρχηδονική και
Q. APOʻNIUS, was one of the commanders of the Nomadiń). 9. Macedonia (Makedovan). 10.
troops which revolted, in B. C. 46, from Trebonius, Greece and the Greek slates in Asia Minor ('EXA7-
Caesar's lieutenant in Spain. (Dion Cass. xliii. 29. ) VICT) Kaj 'lwvikh). 11. Syria and Parthia (Euplamh
Aponius was proscribed by the triumvirs in B. C. 43, kad Mapouch). 12. The war with Mithridates
and put to death. (Appian, B. C. iv. 26. )
(Μιθριδάτειος). 13-21. The civil wars (Εμφύ-
APOʻNIUS MU'TILUS. [MUTILUS. ] Aia), in nine books, from those of Marius and
APOʻNIUS SATURNI'NUS. (SATURNINUS. ] Sulla to the battle of Actium. The last four books
APOTROPAEI ('Αποτρόπαιοι), certain divini- | also had the title of τα Αίγυπτιακά. 22. Εκατον-
ties, by whose assistance the Greeks believed that Taetia, comprised the history of a hundred years,
they were able to avert any threatening danger or from the battle of Actium to the beginning of
calamity. Their statues stood at Sicyon near the Vespasian's reign. 23. The wars with Illyria
tomb of Epopeus. (Paus. ü. 11. & 2. ) The Romans ('iriupunń or Aamiń). 24. Those with Arabia
likewise worshipped gods of this kind, and called 'Apabios). We possess only eleven of these com-
them di averrunci, derived from averruncare. plete ; namely, the sixth, seventh, eighth, eleventh,
(Varro, de L. L. vii. 102; Gellius, v. 12. ) [L. S. ] twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth,
APOTROʻPHIA ('Arotpoola), “ the expeller," seventeenth, and twenty-third. There are also
a surname of Aphrodite, under which she was fragments of several of the others. The Parthian
worshipped at Thebes, and which described her as history, which has come down to us as part of the
the goddess who expelled from the hearts of men eleventh book, has been proved by Schweighäuser
the desire after sinful pleasure and lust. Her to be no work of Appian, but merely a compilation
worship under this name was believed to have from Plutarch's Lives of Anwny and Crassus, pro-
been instituted by Harmonia, together with that bably made in the middle ages. (See Schweighau-
of Aphrodite Urania and Pandemos, and the anti- ser's Appian, vol. iii. p. 905, &c. )
quity of her statues confirmed this belief. (Paus. Appian's work is a mere compilation. In the
ix. 16. & 2. )
(L. S. )
early times he chiefly followed Dionysius, as far as
APPIANUS ('Antiavos), a native of Alexan- the latter went, and his work makes up to a con.
dria, lived at Rome during the reigns of Trajan, siderable extent for the books of Dionysius, which
Hadrian, and Antoninus Pius, as we gather from are lost. In the history of the second Punic war
various passages in his work. We have hardly Fabius seems to have been his chief authority, and
any particulars of his life, for his autobiography, to subsequently he made use of Polybius. His style
which he refers at the end of the preface to his is clear and simple; but he possesses few merits as
history, is now lost. In the same passage he men- an historian, and he frequently makes the most
tious, that he was a man of considerable distinction absurd blunders. Thus, for instance, he places
at Alexandria, and afterwards removed to Rome, Saguntum on the north of the Iberus (Iver. 7),
where he was engaged in pleading causes in the and states that it takes only half a day to sail
courts of the emperors. He further states, that the from Spain to Britain. (Iber. 1. ).
emperors considered him worthy to be entrusted Appian's history was first published in a barba-
with the management of their affairs (Méxpı we rous Latin translation by Candidus, at Venice, in
oow & IT POT EVEN titiwoax); which Schweigbäuser 1472. A part of the Greek text was first pub-
and others interpret to mean, that he was appointed lished by Carolus Stephanus, Paris, 155); which
to the office of procurator or praefectus of Egypt. was followed by an improved Latin version by
There is, however, no reason for this supposition. Gelenius, which was published after the death of
## p. 248 (#268) ############################################
248
APPULEIUS.
APPULEIUS.
the latter at Basel, 1554. The Greek text of the 4. APPULEIUS, a praediałor, mentioned by Cicero
'I6npinti kal 'Avv. bairt was published for the first in two of his letters (ad Au. xii. 14, 17), must be
time by H. Stephanus, Geneva, 1557. Ursinus distinguished from No. 3.
published some fragments at Antwerp, 1582. The 5. M. APPULEIUS was elected augur in B. C. 45,
second edition of the Greek text was edited, with and Cicero pleaded illness as a reason for his ab-
the Latin version of Gelenius, by H. Stephanus, sence from the inaugural festival, which seems to
Geneva, 1592. The twenty-third book of Appian, have lasted several days. (Cic. ad Att. xii. 13
containing the wars with Illyria, was first publish. – 15. ) At the time of Caesar's death, B. C. 44.
ed by Hoeschelius, Augsburg, 1599, and some ad.
