The third edition of Appian's work was
assisted
him with money and troops.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a
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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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. Appuleius seems to have been qunestor in Asia ; and
ditional fragments were added by Valesius, Paris, when Brutus crossed over into Greece and Asia he
1634.
The third edition of Appian's work was assisted him with money and troops. (Cic. Phil.
published at Amsterdam in 1670, and is a mere x. 11, xiii. 16; Appian, B. C. iii. 63, iv. 75. )
reprint of the edition of H. Stephanus. The work He was proscribed by the triumvirs, B. C. 43, and
bears on the title-page the name of Alexander fled to Brutus, who placed him over Bithynia
Tollius, but he did absolutely nothing for the work, After the death of Brutus, B. C. 42, he surrendered
and allowed the typographical errors of the old the province to Antony, and was restored by him
edition to remain. The fourth edition, and infi- to his native country. (Appian, B. C. iv. 46. )
nitely the best, is that of Schweighäuser, Leipzig, 6. APPULEIUS, proscribed by the triumvirs in
1785, 3 vols. 8vo. A few new fragments of Appian B. C. 43, escaped with his wife to Sicily. (Ap-
were published by Mai in the second volume of his pian, B. C. iv. 40. ) He must be distinguished
Nova Collectio vet. Scrip. : they are reprinted, toge from No. 5, who was proscribed at the same time.
ther with the new fragments of Polybius, in “ Po This Appuleius is probably the same as the tribune
lybii et Appiani Historiarum Excerpta Vaticana, of the plebs spoken of by Appian. (B. C. iii. 93. )
&c. ," edited by Lucht, Altona, 1830. Mai also 7. Sex. APPULEIUS Sex. F. Sex. N. , consul in
discovered a letter of Appian to Fronto (p. 229 in B. c. 29. He afterwards went to Spain as procon-
Niebuhr's edition of Fronto).
sul, and obtained a triumph in B. c. 26, for the
A'PPIAS, a nymph of the Appian well, which victories he had gained in that country. (Dion
was situated not far from the temple of Venus Cass. li. 20; Fust. Capitol. )
Genitrix in the forum of Julius Caesar. It was 8. M. APPULEIUS SEX. F. Sex. N. , consul in
surrounded by statues of nymphs, who were called B. C. 20, may possibly be the same person as No.
Appiades. (Ov. Rem. Am. 659, Ars Am. i. 81, 5. (Dion Cass. liv. 7. )
in. 451. ) Cicero (ad Fam. iii. 1) flatters Appias 9. Sex. APPULEJUS Sex. F. Sex. No, probably
Pulcher by applying the name Appias to a statue a son of No. 7, consul in A. D. 14, the year in
of Minerva. In modern times, statues of nymphs which Augustus died. (Dion Cass. lvi. 29; Suet.
have been found on the spot where the Appian well Aug. 100 ; Tac. Ann. i. 7 ; Vell. Pat. ii. 123. )
existed in ancient times, and they are considered He is called in two passages of Dion Cassius (l. c.
to be statues of the Appiades. (Visconti, in Mus. and liv. 30) a relation of Augustus. Tacitus
Pio-Clem. i. p. 216, ed. Mediolan. ) [L. S. ) (Ann. ii. 50) speaks of Appuleia Varilia, who was
APPION (APION. ]
accused of adultery and treason in A. D. 17, as a
APPION, a jurist, contemporary with Justinian, granddaughter of a sister of Augustus. It is,
N
by whom he is named in terms of high commenda- therefore, not impossible that Sex. Appuleius may
tion in the 82nd Norell, on account of the excel- have married one of the Marcellae, the two daughters
lent discharge of his legal duties as the assessor of of Octavia, by her first husband Marcellus; but
Marcellus. On his appointment, A. D. 539, as there is no authority for this marriage.
communis omnium, or major juder, with jurisdiction APPULEIUS or APULEIUS (inscriptions
next to the emperor's praefects (ápxovtes), he is and the oldest MSS. generally exhibit the double
said by Justinian to have acquired a high character, consonant, see Cren. Animad. Phil. P. xi. sub. init;
not only legal, but general. He was previously Oudendorp, ad Apul. Asin. not. p. 1), chiefly cele-
advocatus fisci, an office to which was attached the brated as the author of the Golden Ass, was born
title spectabilis. His name appears as consul a. D. in the early part of the second century in Africa,
539.
[J. T. G. ] at Madaura, which was originally attached to the
A'PPIUS CLAU'DIUS. [CLAUDIUS. ] kingdom of Syphax, was transferred to Masinissa
A'PPIUS SILANUS. (SILANUS. ]
at the close of the second Punic war, and having
APPULEIA or APULEIA GENS, plebeian. been eventually colonized by a detachment of Ro-
The cognomens of this gens are DECIANUS, Pansa, man veterans, attained to considerable splendour.
and SATURNINUS: those who bear no cognomen are This town was situated far inland on the border
given under APPULEIUS. The first of the Appu- line between Numidia and Gaetulia, and hence
leii
, who obtained the consulship, was Q. Appuleius Appuleius styles himself Seminumida et Semigae-
Pansa, B. c. 300.
tulus, declaring at the same time, that he had no
APPULEIA VARI’LIA. (APPULEIUS, No. 9. ] more reason to feel ashamed of his hybrid origin
APPULEIUS or APULEIUS. 1. L. Ap than the elder Cyrus, who in like manner might be
PULEIUS, tribune of the plebs, B. C. 391, impeached termed Semimedus ac Semipersa. (Apolog. pp. 443,
Camillus for having secreted part of the spoils of | 444, ed. Florid. ) His father was a man of high
Veii. (Liv. v. 32; Plut. Cam. 12. )
respectability, who having filled the office of
2. L. APPULEIUS, one of the Roman ambassadors duumvir and enjoyed all the other dignities of his
sent in B. c. 156 to examine into the state of affairs native town, bequeathed at his death the sum of
between Attalus and Prusias. (Polyb. xxxii. 26. ) nearly two millions of sesterces to his two sons.
3. APPULEIUS, proquaestor, to whom Cicero (Apolog. p. 442. ) Appuleius received the first
addresses two letters (ad Fumi. xiii. 45, 46), was rudiments of education at Carthage, renowned at
perhaps the proquaestor of Q. Philippus, the pro- I that period as a school of literature (Florida, iv.
consul, in Asia B. C. 55.
p. 20), and afterwards proceeded to Aibens, where
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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-
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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. Appuleius seems to have been qunestor in Asia ; and
ditional fragments were added by Valesius, Paris, when Brutus crossed over into Greece and Asia he
1634.
The third edition of Appian's work was assisted him with money and troops. (Cic. Phil.
published at Amsterdam in 1670, and is a mere x. 11, xiii. 16; Appian, B. C. iii. 63, iv. 75. )
reprint of the edition of H. Stephanus. The work He was proscribed by the triumvirs, B. C. 43, and
bears on the title-page the name of Alexander fled to Brutus, who placed him over Bithynia
Tollius, but he did absolutely nothing for the work, After the death of Brutus, B. C. 42, he surrendered
and allowed the typographical errors of the old the province to Antony, and was restored by him
edition to remain. The fourth edition, and infi- to his native country. (Appian, B. C. iv. 46. )
nitely the best, is that of Schweighäuser, Leipzig, 6. APPULEIUS, proscribed by the triumvirs in
1785, 3 vols. 8vo. A few new fragments of Appian B. C. 43, escaped with his wife to Sicily. (Ap-
were published by Mai in the second volume of his pian, B. C. iv. 40. ) He must be distinguished
Nova Collectio vet. Scrip. : they are reprinted, toge from No. 5, who was proscribed at the same time.
ther with the new fragments of Polybius, in “ Po This Appuleius is probably the same as the tribune
lybii et Appiani Historiarum Excerpta Vaticana, of the plebs spoken of by Appian. (B. C. iii. 93. )
&c. ," edited by Lucht, Altona, 1830. Mai also 7. Sex. APPULEIUS Sex. F. Sex. N. , consul in
discovered a letter of Appian to Fronto (p. 229 in B. c. 29. He afterwards went to Spain as procon-
Niebuhr's edition of Fronto).
sul, and obtained a triumph in B. c. 26, for the
A'PPIAS, a nymph of the Appian well, which victories he had gained in that country. (Dion
was situated not far from the temple of Venus Cass. li. 20; Fust. Capitol. )
Genitrix in the forum of Julius Caesar. It was 8. M. APPULEIUS SEX. F. Sex. N. , consul in
surrounded by statues of nymphs, who were called B. C. 20, may possibly be the same person as No.
Appiades. (Ov. Rem. Am. 659, Ars Am. i. 81, 5. (Dion Cass. liv. 7. )
in. 451. ) Cicero (ad Fam. iii. 1) flatters Appias 9. Sex. APPULEJUS Sex. F. Sex. No, probably
Pulcher by applying the name Appias to a statue a son of No. 7, consul in A. D. 14, the year in
of Minerva. In modern times, statues of nymphs which Augustus died. (Dion Cass. lvi. 29; Suet.
have been found on the spot where the Appian well Aug. 100 ; Tac. Ann. i. 7 ; Vell. Pat. ii. 123. )
existed in ancient times, and they are considered He is called in two passages of Dion Cassius (l. c.
to be statues of the Appiades. (Visconti, in Mus. and liv. 30) a relation of Augustus. Tacitus
Pio-Clem. i. p. 216, ed. Mediolan. ) [L. S. ) (Ann. ii. 50) speaks of Appuleia Varilia, who was
APPION (APION. ]
accused of adultery and treason in A. D. 17, as a
APPION, a jurist, contemporary with Justinian, granddaughter of a sister of Augustus. It is,
N
by whom he is named in terms of high commenda- therefore, not impossible that Sex. Appuleius may
tion in the 82nd Norell, on account of the excel- have married one of the Marcellae, the two daughters
lent discharge of his legal duties as the assessor of of Octavia, by her first husband Marcellus; but
Marcellus. On his appointment, A. D. 539, as there is no authority for this marriage.
communis omnium, or major juder, with jurisdiction APPULEIUS or APULEIUS (inscriptions
next to the emperor's praefects (ápxovtes), he is and the oldest MSS. generally exhibit the double
said by Justinian to have acquired a high character, consonant, see Cren. Animad. Phil. P. xi. sub. init;
not only legal, but general. He was previously Oudendorp, ad Apul. Asin. not. p. 1), chiefly cele-
advocatus fisci, an office to which was attached the brated as the author of the Golden Ass, was born
title spectabilis. His name appears as consul a. D. in the early part of the second century in Africa,
539.
[J. T. G. ] at Madaura, which was originally attached to the
A'PPIUS CLAU'DIUS. [CLAUDIUS. ] kingdom of Syphax, was transferred to Masinissa
A'PPIUS SILANUS. (SILANUS. ]
at the close of the second Punic war, and having
APPULEIA or APULEIA GENS, plebeian. been eventually colonized by a detachment of Ro-
The cognomens of this gens are DECIANUS, Pansa, man veterans, attained to considerable splendour.
and SATURNINUS: those who bear no cognomen are This town was situated far inland on the border
given under APPULEIUS. The first of the Appu- line between Numidia and Gaetulia, and hence
leii
, who obtained the consulship, was Q. Appuleius Appuleius styles himself Seminumida et Semigae-
Pansa, B. c. 300.
tulus, declaring at the same time, that he had no
APPULEIA VARI’LIA. (APPULEIUS, No. 9. ] more reason to feel ashamed of his hybrid origin
APPULEIUS or APULEIUS. 1. L. Ap than the elder Cyrus, who in like manner might be
PULEIUS, tribune of the plebs, B. C. 391, impeached termed Semimedus ac Semipersa. (Apolog. pp. 443,
Camillus for having secreted part of the spoils of | 444, ed. Florid. ) His father was a man of high
Veii. (Liv. v. 32; Plut. Cam. 12. )
respectability, who having filled the office of
2. L. APPULEIUS, one of the Roman ambassadors duumvir and enjoyed all the other dignities of his
sent in B. c. 156 to examine into the state of affairs native town, bequeathed at his death the sum of
between Attalus and Prusias. (Polyb. xxxii. 26. ) nearly two millions of sesterces to his two sons.
3. APPULEIUS, proquaestor, to whom Cicero (Apolog. p. 442. ) Appuleius received the first
addresses two letters (ad Fumi. xiii. 45, 46), was rudiments of education at Carthage, renowned at
perhaps the proquaestor of Q. Philippus, the pro- I that period as a school of literature (Florida, iv.
consul, in Asia B. C. 55.
p. 20), and afterwards proceeded to Aibens, where
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