)
ply to what he thought him fit for, although by 6.
ply to what he thought him fit for, although by 6.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a
Surnamed Orapius or Horapius, wrote a 2.
Another Greek physician, who must have
work on Egypt, entitled Semenuthi (Leuevovoi), lived in the first or second century after Christ, as
and seems also to have composed other works on he is said by Galen (de Caus. Puls. iii. 9, vol. ix.
the history and religion of the Egyptians. (Theo pp. 138, 139) to have differed from Archigenes
phil. Alex. ii. G; comp. Vossius, de Hist. Graec. respecting the state of the pulse during sleep. No
p. 396, ed. Westermann. )
other particulars are known of his history; but he
8. Of Sicyox. When in B. c. 186 the great is sometimes confounded with Apollonius of Cy.
congress was held at Megalopolis, and king Eumenes prus, a mistake which has arisen from reading
wished to form an alliance with the Achaeans, and Απολλωνίδου instead of 'Απολλωνίου in the pas-
offered them a large sum of money as a present sage of Galen where the latter physician is men-
with a view of securing their favour, Apollonides tioned. [APOLLONIUS CYPRIUS. ) He may perhaps
of Sicyon strongly opposed the Achaeans'accepting be the same person who is mentioned by Artemi-
the money, as something unworthy of them, and dorus (Oneirocr. iv. 2), and Aëtius (tetrab. ii.
which would expose them to the influence of the serm. iv. c. 48. p. 403), in which last passage the
king. He was supported by some other distin- name is spelled Apolloniades. (Fabricius, Bill. Gr.
guished Achaeans, and they magnanimously re- vol. xiii. p. 74, ed. vet. )
(W. A. G. ]
fused accepting the money. (Polyb. xxiii. 8. ) At APOLLO'NIUS ('ATollários), historical. ).
this congress Roman anbassadors also had been the son of Charinus, appointed by Alexander the
present, and after their return, Spartan and Achaean Great, before leaving Egypt, as governor of the
an bassadors went to Rome, B. c. 185. Among the part of Libya on the confines of Egypt, B. c. 33).
latter was Apollonides, who endeavoured to ex- (Arrian, Ancb. iii. 5; Curtius, iv. 8. )
plain to the Roman senate the real state of affairs 2. A friend of Demetrius, the son of Seleucus,
at Sparta, against the Spartan ambassadors, and to who accompanied Demetrius when he went to
vindicate the conduct of Philopoemen and the Rome as a hostage, B. c. 175, and supported hiin
Achaeans against the charges of the Spartans. with his advice. Apollonius bad been educated
(Polyb. xxiii. 11, 12. ) At the outbreak of the together with Demeirius, and their two families
war between the Romans and Perseus of Mace had been long connected by friendship. The fa-
donia, Apollonides advised his countrymen not to ther of Apollonius, who bore the same name, had
oppose the Romans openly, but at the same time possessed great influence with Seleucus. (Polyb.
he censured severely those who were for throwing xxxi. 19, 21. )
themselves into their hands altogether. (Polyb. 3. The spokesman of an embassy sent by An-
xxviii. 6. )
tiochus IV. to Rome, in B. C. 173. He brought
9. A SPARTAN who was appointed in B. c. 181 from his master tribute and rich presents, and re-
one of the treasurers to check the system of squan- quested that the senate would renew with Antio-
dering the public money which had been carried chus the alliance which had existed between his
on for some time by Chaeron, a low demagogue. father and the Romans. (Liv. lii. 6. )
As Apollonides was the person whom Chaeron 4. Of Clazomenae, was sent, together with
had most to fear, he had him assassinated by his Apollonides, in B. c. 170, as ambassador to king
emissaries. (Polyb. xxv. 8 ; CH AERON. )
Antiochus after he had made himself inaster of
10. A Stoic philosopher, with whom Cato the Egypt. (Polyb. xxviii. 16. )
Younger conversed on the subject of suicide shortly 5. One of the principal leaders during the revolt
before he committed this act at Utica. (Plut. Cai. of the slaves in Sicily, which had been brought
Min. 65, 66, 69. )
about by one Titus Minucius, in R. c. 103. The
11. A SYRACUSAN, who, during the dissensions senate sent L. Lucullus with an army against him,
among his fellow-citizens, in the time of the second and by bribes and the promise of impunity he in-
a
3
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APOLLONIUS.
APOLLONIUS.
duced Apollonius to betray the other leaders of 5. The son of ARCHEBULUS, Archebing, or An-
the insurrection, and to aid the Romans in sup chibius, was like his father an eminent grammarian
pressing it. (Diod. xxxvi. Eclog. 1. p. 529, &c. ) of Alexandria. He lived about the time of Au-
6. Of Drepanum, a son of Nicon, was a profli- gustus, and was the teacher of Apion, while he
gate but wealthy person, who had accumulated himself had been a pupil of the school of Didymus.
great treasures by robbing orphans of their pro- This is the statement of Suidas, which Villoison
perty, and was spoiled in his turn by Verres. He has endeavoured to confirm. Other critics, as
obtained the Roman franchise, and then received Ruhnken, believe that Apollonius lived after the
the Roman name of A. Clodius. (Cic. in. Verr. iv. time of Apion, and that our Apollonius in his Ho
17; Quintil. ix. 2. $ 52. )
meric Lexicon made use of a similar work written
7. A tyrant of a town in Mesopotamia called by Apion. This opinion seems indeed to be the
Zenodotia, which was destroyed by M. Crassus more probable of the two; but, however this may
in B. C. 54, because 100 Roman soldiers had be, the Homeric Lexicon of Apollonius to the Iliad
been put to death there. (Plut. Crass. 17; Pseudo and the Odyssey, which is still extant, is to us a
Appian, Parth. p. 27, ed. Schweigh. ) [L. S. ) valuable and instructive relic of antiquity, if we
APOLLONIUS ('Apowvios), literary. 1. consider the loss of so many other works of the
Of ACHARNA E, a Greek writer, the author of a same kind. It is unfortunately, however, very
work on the festivals. (riepl éoptwv; Harpocrat. much interpolated, and must be used with great
5. υ. πέλαγος, Πυανόψια, Χαλκεία ; Phot. 5. υ. caution. The first edition of it was published by
υδροφορία. )
Villoison from a MS. of St. Germain belonging to
2. Of ALABANDA, surnamed Malaxos, was the tenth century. (Paris, 1773, 2 vols. fol. , with
some years older than Apollonius Molon, with valuable prolegomena and a Latin translation. It
whom he has sometimes been confounded. He was reprinted in the same year at Leipzig, in 2
was a rhetorician, and went from Alabanda to vols. 410. ) H. Tollius afterwards published a new
Rhodes, where he taught rhetoric. (Strab. xiv. edition with some additional notes, but without Vil-
p. 655. ) Scaevola in his praetorship saw him and loison's prolegomena and translation. (Lugd. Bat.
spoke with him in Rhodes. He was a very dis- 1788, 8vo. ) Bekker's is a very useful edition, Ber-
tinguished teacher of rhetoric, and used to ridicule lin, 1833, 8vo. This Apollonius is probably the
and despise philosophy. (Cic. de Orat. i. 17. ) same as the one who wrote explanations of expres
Whenever he found that a pupil had no talent for sions peculiar to Herodotus. (Etymol. M. s. or.
oratory, he dismissed him, and advised him to ap kwoos and copioTÁS.
)
ply to what he thought him fit for, although by 6. Of Ascalon, an historian. (Steph. Byz. s. e.
retaining 'him he might have derived pecuniary 'Aokalav. )
advantages. (Cic. de Orat. i. 28; comp. Spalding, 7. Of ATHENS, a sophist and rhetorician, lived
ad Quintil. i. p. 430, ii. p. 453, iv. p. 562; Clinton, in the time of the emperor Severus and was a
i
F. H. vol. ii. p. 147, &c. )
pupil of Adrianus. He distinguished himself by
3. Of ALABANDA, surnamed Molon, likewise a his forensic eloquence, and taught rhetoric at
rhetorician, who left his country and went to Athens at the same time with Heracleides. He
Rhodes (Strabo, xiv. p. 655); but he appears to was appointed by the emperor to the chair of poli-
have also taught rhetoric at Rome for some time, as tical eloquence, with a salary of one talent. He
Cicero, who calls him a great pleader in the courts held several high offices in his native place, and
of justice and a great teacher, states that, in B. C. distinguished himself no less as a statesman and
88, he received instructions from him at Rome. diplomatist than as a rhetorician. His declama-
(Cic. Brut. 89. ) In B. c. 81, when Sulla was dic- tions are said to have excelled those of many of
tator, Apollonius came to Rome as ambassador of his predecessors in dignity, beauty, and propriety;
the Rhodians, on which occasion Cicero again be but he was often vehement and rythmical. " (Phi-
nefited by his instructions. (Brut. 90. ) Four lostr. V'it. Soph. ii. 20; Eudoc. p. 57, &c. )
years later, when Cicero returned from Asia, he 8. Of ATHENS, a son of Sotades, wrote a work
staid for some time in Rhodes, and had an oppor- on the obscene poetry of his father. (Athen. xiv.
tunity of admiring the practical eloquence of Apol- p. 620 ; Sotades. )
lonius in the courts as well as his skill in teaching, 9. Surnamed 'ATTale's, the author of a work
(Brut. 91. ) Apollonius is also called a distinc on dreams. (Artemid. Oneir. i. 34, iii. 28. )
guished writer, but none of his works has come 10. The son of CHA ERIS, a Greek writer, who
down to us. They appear however to have treated is referred to by the Scholiast on Aristophanes
on rhetorical subjects, and on the Homeric poems. (Vesp. 1231), and the Venetian Scholiast on Ho-
(Phoebam. i. p. 98; Porplıyt. Quaest. Homeric. p. mer. (1l. iii. 448; comp. Fabric. Bibl. Graec. iv.
10. ) Josephus (c. Apion. ii. 36) mentions some p. 275. )
work of his in which he spoke against the Jews. ll. Of CHALCEDON or Chalcis, or, according to
Julius Caesar was also one of his disciples (Plut. Dion Cassins (lxxi. 35) of Nicomedia, was invited
Caes. 3 ; Suet. Caes. 4 ; comp. Cic. ad Att. ii. 1, by the emperor Antoninus Pius to come to Rome,
Brut. 70, de Invent. i. 56; Plut. Cic. 4; Quintil. for the purpose of instructing his son Marcus in
iii. 1. § 16, xii. 6. $ 7. )
philosophy. (Capitolin. Antonin. Pius, 10; M. An-
4. Of APHRODISIAs in Cilicia, is called by Sui- tonin. de Rebus suis, i. 8; Lucian, Demon. 31;
das a high priest and an historian. He is said to comp. Fabric. Bibl. Graec. iii. p. 539. )
have written a work on the town of Tralles, a se- 12. A freedman of CRASSUS, to whom he was
cond on Orpheus and his mysteries, and a third on much attached. He afterwards became a useful
the history of Caria (Kapıká), of which the eigh- friend of Cicero's, and served in the army of J. Cae-
teenth book is mentioned, and which is often re- sar in the Alexandrine war, and also followed him
ferred to by Stephanus of Byzantium. (s. vv. Báp into Spain. He was a man of great diligence and
γασα, Χρυσαορίς, 'Αγκυρα, Χωλόν τείχος ; Εtym. learning, and anxious to write a history of the ex-
Μ. 5. υ. “Αρπασος, &c. )
ploits of Caesar. For this reason Cicero gave him
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239
APOLLONIUS.
** de
a very flattering letter of recommendation to Cae- of four new MSS. , is I. Bekker's, Berlin, 1817, 8vo.
sar. (Cic. ad Famil. xii. 6. )
2. Περί αντωνυμίας, “ de Pronoinine liber," was
13. A CHRISTIAN writer, whose parents and first edited by I. Bekker in the Museum. Antiq. Stud.
country are unknown, but who is believed to have i. 2, Berlin, 1811, 8vo. , and afterwards separately,
been bishop of Ephesus, and to have lived about Berlin, 1814, 8vo. 3. Tepi ouvdéouwv, "de Con-
the year A. D. 192. He wrote a work exposing junctionibus," and 4. Nepi étudimuatwv,
the errors and the conduct of the Christian sect | Adverbiis," are both printed in Bekker's Anecdot.
called Cataphryges, some fragments of which are ii. p. 477, &c.
preserved in Eusebius. (llist. Eccles. v. 18, 21. ) Among the works ascribed to Apollonius by
Tertullian defended the sect of the Montanists Suidas there is one repi katetevo Mévns iotopias,
against this Apollonius, and the seventh book of on fictitious or forged histories. It is generally
his work repléoTÁOEWS was especially directed believed that the work of one Apollonius, which
against Apollonius. (Auctor Praedestinati, cc. 26, was published together with Antoninus Liberalis
27, 68; Cave, Hist. Lit. i. p. 53; Fabric. Bibl. by Xylander, under the title “ Historiae Commen-
Graec. vii. . . 164. )
titiae,” (Basel, 1568, 8vo. ,) is the same as the
14. A CHRISTIAN, who suffered martyrdom at work ascribed by Suidas to Apollonius Dyscolos ;
Rome in the reign of Commodus. He is said to and Meursius and subsequently L. H. Teucher
have been a Roman senator. At his trial he made published the work with the name of Apollonius
a beautiful defence of Christianity in the Roman Dyscolos. This work thus edited three times is a
senate, which was afterwards translated into Greek collection of wonderful phenomena of nature, ga-
and inserted by Eusebius in his history of the thered from the works of Aristotle, Theophrastus,
Martyrs, but is now lost. (Hieronym. Epist.
work on Egypt, entitled Semenuthi (Leuevovoi), lived in the first or second century after Christ, as
and seems also to have composed other works on he is said by Galen (de Caus. Puls. iii. 9, vol. ix.
the history and religion of the Egyptians. (Theo pp. 138, 139) to have differed from Archigenes
phil. Alex. ii. G; comp. Vossius, de Hist. Graec. respecting the state of the pulse during sleep. No
p. 396, ed. Westermann. )
other particulars are known of his history; but he
8. Of Sicyox. When in B. c. 186 the great is sometimes confounded with Apollonius of Cy.
congress was held at Megalopolis, and king Eumenes prus, a mistake which has arisen from reading
wished to form an alliance with the Achaeans, and Απολλωνίδου instead of 'Απολλωνίου in the pas-
offered them a large sum of money as a present sage of Galen where the latter physician is men-
with a view of securing their favour, Apollonides tioned. [APOLLONIUS CYPRIUS. ) He may perhaps
of Sicyon strongly opposed the Achaeans'accepting be the same person who is mentioned by Artemi-
the money, as something unworthy of them, and dorus (Oneirocr. iv. 2), and Aëtius (tetrab. ii.
which would expose them to the influence of the serm. iv. c. 48. p. 403), in which last passage the
king. He was supported by some other distin- name is spelled Apolloniades. (Fabricius, Bill. Gr.
guished Achaeans, and they magnanimously re- vol. xiii. p. 74, ed. vet. )
(W. A. G. ]
fused accepting the money. (Polyb. xxiii. 8. ) At APOLLO'NIUS ('ATollários), historical. ).
this congress Roman anbassadors also had been the son of Charinus, appointed by Alexander the
present, and after their return, Spartan and Achaean Great, before leaving Egypt, as governor of the
an bassadors went to Rome, B. c. 185. Among the part of Libya on the confines of Egypt, B. c. 33).
latter was Apollonides, who endeavoured to ex- (Arrian, Ancb. iii. 5; Curtius, iv. 8. )
plain to the Roman senate the real state of affairs 2. A friend of Demetrius, the son of Seleucus,
at Sparta, against the Spartan ambassadors, and to who accompanied Demetrius when he went to
vindicate the conduct of Philopoemen and the Rome as a hostage, B. c. 175, and supported hiin
Achaeans against the charges of the Spartans. with his advice. Apollonius bad been educated
(Polyb. xxiii. 11, 12. ) At the outbreak of the together with Demeirius, and their two families
war between the Romans and Perseus of Mace had been long connected by friendship. The fa-
donia, Apollonides advised his countrymen not to ther of Apollonius, who bore the same name, had
oppose the Romans openly, but at the same time possessed great influence with Seleucus. (Polyb.
he censured severely those who were for throwing xxxi. 19, 21. )
themselves into their hands altogether. (Polyb. 3. The spokesman of an embassy sent by An-
xxviii. 6. )
tiochus IV. to Rome, in B. C. 173. He brought
9. A SPARTAN who was appointed in B. c. 181 from his master tribute and rich presents, and re-
one of the treasurers to check the system of squan- quested that the senate would renew with Antio-
dering the public money which had been carried chus the alliance which had existed between his
on for some time by Chaeron, a low demagogue. father and the Romans. (Liv. lii. 6. )
As Apollonides was the person whom Chaeron 4. Of Clazomenae, was sent, together with
had most to fear, he had him assassinated by his Apollonides, in B. c. 170, as ambassador to king
emissaries. (Polyb. xxv. 8 ; CH AERON. )
Antiochus after he had made himself inaster of
10. A Stoic philosopher, with whom Cato the Egypt. (Polyb. xxviii. 16. )
Younger conversed on the subject of suicide shortly 5. One of the principal leaders during the revolt
before he committed this act at Utica. (Plut. Cai. of the slaves in Sicily, which had been brought
Min. 65, 66, 69. )
about by one Titus Minucius, in R. c. 103. The
11. A SYRACUSAN, who, during the dissensions senate sent L. Lucullus with an army against him,
among his fellow-citizens, in the time of the second and by bribes and the promise of impunity he in-
a
3
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APOLLONIUS.
APOLLONIUS.
duced Apollonius to betray the other leaders of 5. The son of ARCHEBULUS, Archebing, or An-
the insurrection, and to aid the Romans in sup chibius, was like his father an eminent grammarian
pressing it. (Diod. xxxvi. Eclog. 1. p. 529, &c. ) of Alexandria. He lived about the time of Au-
6. Of Drepanum, a son of Nicon, was a profli- gustus, and was the teacher of Apion, while he
gate but wealthy person, who had accumulated himself had been a pupil of the school of Didymus.
great treasures by robbing orphans of their pro- This is the statement of Suidas, which Villoison
perty, and was spoiled in his turn by Verres. He has endeavoured to confirm. Other critics, as
obtained the Roman franchise, and then received Ruhnken, believe that Apollonius lived after the
the Roman name of A. Clodius. (Cic. in. Verr. iv. time of Apion, and that our Apollonius in his Ho
17; Quintil. ix. 2. $ 52. )
meric Lexicon made use of a similar work written
7. A tyrant of a town in Mesopotamia called by Apion. This opinion seems indeed to be the
Zenodotia, which was destroyed by M. Crassus more probable of the two; but, however this may
in B. C. 54, because 100 Roman soldiers had be, the Homeric Lexicon of Apollonius to the Iliad
been put to death there. (Plut. Crass. 17; Pseudo and the Odyssey, which is still extant, is to us a
Appian, Parth. p. 27, ed. Schweigh. ) [L. S. ) valuable and instructive relic of antiquity, if we
APOLLONIUS ('Apowvios), literary. 1. consider the loss of so many other works of the
Of ACHARNA E, a Greek writer, the author of a same kind. It is unfortunately, however, very
work on the festivals. (riepl éoptwv; Harpocrat. much interpolated, and must be used with great
5. υ. πέλαγος, Πυανόψια, Χαλκεία ; Phot. 5. υ. caution. The first edition of it was published by
υδροφορία. )
Villoison from a MS. of St. Germain belonging to
2. Of ALABANDA, surnamed Malaxos, was the tenth century. (Paris, 1773, 2 vols. fol. , with
some years older than Apollonius Molon, with valuable prolegomena and a Latin translation. It
whom he has sometimes been confounded. He was reprinted in the same year at Leipzig, in 2
was a rhetorician, and went from Alabanda to vols. 410. ) H. Tollius afterwards published a new
Rhodes, where he taught rhetoric. (Strab. xiv. edition with some additional notes, but without Vil-
p. 655. ) Scaevola in his praetorship saw him and loison's prolegomena and translation. (Lugd. Bat.
spoke with him in Rhodes. He was a very dis- 1788, 8vo. ) Bekker's is a very useful edition, Ber-
tinguished teacher of rhetoric, and used to ridicule lin, 1833, 8vo. This Apollonius is probably the
and despise philosophy. (Cic. de Orat. i. 17. ) same as the one who wrote explanations of expres
Whenever he found that a pupil had no talent for sions peculiar to Herodotus. (Etymol. M. s. or.
oratory, he dismissed him, and advised him to ap kwoos and copioTÁS.
)
ply to what he thought him fit for, although by 6. Of Ascalon, an historian. (Steph. Byz. s. e.
retaining 'him he might have derived pecuniary 'Aokalav. )
advantages. (Cic. de Orat. i. 28; comp. Spalding, 7. Of ATHENS, a sophist and rhetorician, lived
ad Quintil. i. p. 430, ii. p. 453, iv. p. 562; Clinton, in the time of the emperor Severus and was a
i
F. H. vol. ii. p. 147, &c. )
pupil of Adrianus. He distinguished himself by
3. Of ALABANDA, surnamed Molon, likewise a his forensic eloquence, and taught rhetoric at
rhetorician, who left his country and went to Athens at the same time with Heracleides. He
Rhodes (Strabo, xiv. p. 655); but he appears to was appointed by the emperor to the chair of poli-
have also taught rhetoric at Rome for some time, as tical eloquence, with a salary of one talent. He
Cicero, who calls him a great pleader in the courts held several high offices in his native place, and
of justice and a great teacher, states that, in B. C. distinguished himself no less as a statesman and
88, he received instructions from him at Rome. diplomatist than as a rhetorician. His declama-
(Cic. Brut. 89. ) In B. c. 81, when Sulla was dic- tions are said to have excelled those of many of
tator, Apollonius came to Rome as ambassador of his predecessors in dignity, beauty, and propriety;
the Rhodians, on which occasion Cicero again be but he was often vehement and rythmical. " (Phi-
nefited by his instructions. (Brut. 90. ) Four lostr. V'it. Soph. ii. 20; Eudoc. p. 57, &c. )
years later, when Cicero returned from Asia, he 8. Of ATHENS, a son of Sotades, wrote a work
staid for some time in Rhodes, and had an oppor- on the obscene poetry of his father. (Athen. xiv.
tunity of admiring the practical eloquence of Apol- p. 620 ; Sotades. )
lonius in the courts as well as his skill in teaching, 9. Surnamed 'ATTale's, the author of a work
(Brut. 91. ) Apollonius is also called a distinc on dreams. (Artemid. Oneir. i. 34, iii. 28. )
guished writer, but none of his works has come 10. The son of CHA ERIS, a Greek writer, who
down to us. They appear however to have treated is referred to by the Scholiast on Aristophanes
on rhetorical subjects, and on the Homeric poems. (Vesp. 1231), and the Venetian Scholiast on Ho-
(Phoebam. i. p. 98; Porplıyt. Quaest. Homeric. p. mer. (1l. iii. 448; comp. Fabric. Bibl. Graec. iv.
10. ) Josephus (c. Apion. ii. 36) mentions some p. 275. )
work of his in which he spoke against the Jews. ll. Of CHALCEDON or Chalcis, or, according to
Julius Caesar was also one of his disciples (Plut. Dion Cassins (lxxi. 35) of Nicomedia, was invited
Caes. 3 ; Suet. Caes. 4 ; comp. Cic. ad Att. ii. 1, by the emperor Antoninus Pius to come to Rome,
Brut. 70, de Invent. i. 56; Plut. Cic. 4; Quintil. for the purpose of instructing his son Marcus in
iii. 1. § 16, xii. 6. $ 7. )
philosophy. (Capitolin. Antonin. Pius, 10; M. An-
4. Of APHRODISIAs in Cilicia, is called by Sui- tonin. de Rebus suis, i. 8; Lucian, Demon. 31;
das a high priest and an historian. He is said to comp. Fabric. Bibl. Graec. iii. p. 539. )
have written a work on the town of Tralles, a se- 12. A freedman of CRASSUS, to whom he was
cond on Orpheus and his mysteries, and a third on much attached. He afterwards became a useful
the history of Caria (Kapıká), of which the eigh- friend of Cicero's, and served in the army of J. Cae-
teenth book is mentioned, and which is often re- sar in the Alexandrine war, and also followed him
ferred to by Stephanus of Byzantium. (s. vv. Báp into Spain. He was a man of great diligence and
γασα, Χρυσαορίς, 'Αγκυρα, Χωλόν τείχος ; Εtym. learning, and anxious to write a history of the ex-
Μ. 5. υ. “Αρπασος, &c. )
ploits of Caesar. For this reason Cicero gave him
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APOLLONIUS.
239
APOLLONIUS.
** de
a very flattering letter of recommendation to Cae- of four new MSS. , is I. Bekker's, Berlin, 1817, 8vo.
sar. (Cic. ad Famil. xii. 6. )
2. Περί αντωνυμίας, “ de Pronoinine liber," was
13. A CHRISTIAN writer, whose parents and first edited by I. Bekker in the Museum. Antiq. Stud.
country are unknown, but who is believed to have i. 2, Berlin, 1811, 8vo. , and afterwards separately,
been bishop of Ephesus, and to have lived about Berlin, 1814, 8vo. 3. Tepi ouvdéouwv, "de Con-
the year A. D. 192. He wrote a work exposing junctionibus," and 4. Nepi étudimuatwv,
the errors and the conduct of the Christian sect | Adverbiis," are both printed in Bekker's Anecdot.
called Cataphryges, some fragments of which are ii. p. 477, &c.
preserved in Eusebius. (llist. Eccles. v. 18, 21. ) Among the works ascribed to Apollonius by
Tertullian defended the sect of the Montanists Suidas there is one repi katetevo Mévns iotopias,
against this Apollonius, and the seventh book of on fictitious or forged histories. It is generally
his work repléoTÁOEWS was especially directed believed that the work of one Apollonius, which
against Apollonius. (Auctor Praedestinati, cc. 26, was published together with Antoninus Liberalis
27, 68; Cave, Hist. Lit. i. p. 53; Fabric. Bibl. by Xylander, under the title “ Historiae Commen-
Graec. vii. . . 164. )
titiae,” (Basel, 1568, 8vo. ,) is the same as the
14. A CHRISTIAN, who suffered martyrdom at work ascribed by Suidas to Apollonius Dyscolos ;
Rome in the reign of Commodus. He is said to and Meursius and subsequently L. H. Teucher
have been a Roman senator. At his trial he made published the work with the name of Apollonius
a beautiful defence of Christianity in the Roman Dyscolos. This work thus edited three times is a
senate, which was afterwards translated into Greek collection of wonderful phenomena of nature, ga-
and inserted by Eusebius in his history of the thered from the works of Aristotle, Theophrastus,
Martyrs, but is now lost. (Hieronym. Epist.
