) He was a friend of
Philostratus
(Vit.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a
It was first Drusus (cohors Drusi), when the latter was sent to
published at Rome by Jo. Phil. de Lignamine, quell the revolt of the army in Germany, A. D. 14.
4to. , without date, but before 1484. It was re- | Apronius was sent to Rome with two others to
printed three times in the sixteenth century, be carry the demands of the mutineers ; and on his
sides being included in two collections of medical return to Germany he served under Germanicus,
writers, and in several editions of the works of and is mentioned as one of the Roman generals in
Appuleius of Madaura. The last and best edition the campaign of A. D. 15. On account of his ser-
is that by Ackermann in his Parabilium Medica- vices in this war he obtained the honour of the
mentorum Scriptores Antiqui, Norimb. 1788, 8vo. triumphal ornaments. (Tac. Ann. i. 29, 56, 72. )
A short work, “ De Ponderibus et Mensuris,” He was in Rome in the following year, a. D. 16
bearing the name of Appuleius, is to be found at ii. 32); and four years afterwards (A. D. 20), he
the end of several editions of Mesue's works. succeeded Camillus, as proconsul, in the government
(Haller, Biblioth. Botan. ; Choulant, Handbuch der of Africa. He carried on the war against Tacfari-
Bücherkunde für die Allere Medicin. ) [W. A. G. ) nas, and enforced military discipline with great
APPULEIUS, L. CAECI'LICUS MINU- severity. (iii. 21. ) He was subsequently the pro-
TIA’NUS, the author of a work de Orthographia, praetor of lower Germany, when the Frivii re-
of which considerable fragments were first published volted, and seems to have lost his life in the war
by A. Mai in “ Juris Civilis Ante-Justinianei Reli- against them. (iv. 73, compared with xi. 19. )
quiae, &c. ,” Rome, 1823. They were republished Apronius had two daughters: one of whom was
by Osann, Darmstadt, 1826, with two other gram- married to Plautius Silvanus, and was murdered
matical works, de Nota Aspirationis and de Diph by her husband (iv. 22); the other was married
thongis, which also bear the name of Appuleius. to Lentulus Gaetulicus, consul in a. D. 26. (vi.
Madvig has shewn (de Apuleii Fragm. de Orthogr. , 30. ) He had a son, L. Apronius Caesianus, who
Hafniae, 1829), that the treatise de Orthographia accompanied his father to Africa in a. D. 20 (iii.
is the work a literary impostor of the fifteenth 21), and who was consul for six months with Cali-
century. The two other grammatical treatises gula in A. D. 39. (Dion Cass. lix. 13. )
above mentioned were probably written in the APRONIA'NUS. 1. C. VIPSTANUS APRO-
tenth century of our aera.
NIANUS, was proconsul of Africa at the accession
A'PRIES ('Arpins, 'Arplas), a king of Egypt of Vespasian, A. D. 70. (Tac. Hist. i. 76. ) He
the 8th of the 26th (Saïte) dynasty, the Pharaoh- is probably the same Apronianus as the consul of
Hophra of Scripture (lxx. Ojappri), the Vaphres that name in A. D. 59.
of Manetho, succeeded his father Psammuthis, B. C. 2. Cassius APRONIANUS, the father of Dion
596. The commencement of his reign was distin- Cassins, the historian, was governor of Dalmatia
guished by great success in war. He conquered and Cilicia at different periods. Dion Cassius was
Palestine and Phoenicia, and for a short time re with his father in Cilicia. (Dion Cass. xlix. 36,
established the Egyptian influence in Syria, which lxix. 1, lxxii. 7. ) Reimar (de Vita Cassii Dionis
had been overthrown by Nebuchadnezzar. He $ 6. p. 1535) supposes, that Apronianus was ad-
failed, however, to protect his ally Zedekiah, king mitted into the senate about A. D. 180.
of Jerusalem, from the renewed attack of Nebu- 3. APRONIANUS, governor of the province of
chadnezzar, who took and destroyed Jerusalem. Asia, was unjustly condemned to death in his
(B. C. 586. ) About the same time, in consequence absence, A. D. 203. (Dion Cass. lxxvi. 8. )
of the failure of an expedition which Apries had 4. APRONIANUS ASTERIUS. (ASTERIUS. )
sent against Cyrene, his army rebelled and elected A'PSINES ('Ayivns). 1. An Athenian 80-
as king Amasis, whom Apries had sent to reconcile phist, called by Suidas (s. v. ; comp. Eudoc. p. 67)
them. The cruelty of Apries to Patarbemis, whom a man worthy of note, and father of Onasimus, but
he had sent to bring back Amasis, and who had otherwise unknown.
failed in the attempt, exasperated the principal 2. A son of Onasimus, and grandson of Apsines
Egyptians to such a degree, that they deserted No. 1, is likewise called an Athenian sophist.
It
him, leaving him only to the protection of an is not impossible that he may be the Apsines
auxiliary force of 30,000 Greeks. With these whose commentary on Demosthenes is mentioned
and the few Egyptians who remained faithful by Ulpian (ad Demosth. Leptin. p. 11; comp. Schol.
to him, Apries encountered Amasis at Momem- ad Hermog. p. 402), and who taught rhetoric at
phis, but his army was overpowered by numbers, Athens at the time of Aedesius, in the fourth cen-
and he himself was taken alive. Amasis tury of our era, though this Apsines is called a
treated him for some time with kindvess, but Lacedaemonian. (Eunap. Vit. Surph. p. 113, ed.
at length, in consequence of the continued mur- Antwerp. 1568. ) This Apsines and his disciples
murs of the Egyptians, he suffered him to be were hostile to Julianus, a contemporary rhetori-
put to death. (Herod. 161, &c. , 169, iv. 159; cian at Athens, and to his school. This enmity grew
Diod. i. 68; Athen. xiii. p. 560; Jerem. xxxvii. 5, 7, so much that Athens in the end found itself in a
xliv. 30, xlvi. 26 ; Ezek. xxix. 3; Joseph. Ant. x. state of civil warfare, which required the presence
9. & 7; AMASIS. )
[P. S. ) of a Roman proconsul to suppress. (Eunap. p. 115,
APRO'NIUS. 1. C. APRONIUS, elected one of &c. )
the tribunes of the plebs on the abolition of the 3. Of Gadara in Phoenicia, a Greek sophist and
decemvirate, B. C. 449. (Liv. iii. 54. )
rhetorician, who flourished in the reign of Maxi-
2. Q. APRONIUS, the chief of the decumani in minus, about A. D. 235. He studied at Smyrna
Sicily during the government of Verres (B. c. 73— under Heracleides, the Lycian, and afterwards at
71), was one of the most distinguished for rapacity Nicomedia under Basilicus. He subsequently
and wickedness of every kind. (Cic. Verr. ii. 44, taught rhetoric at Athens, and distinguished him-
ii. 9, 12, 21, 23. )
self so much that he was honoured with the con-
## p. 252 (#272) ############################################
252
AQUILA.
AQU'ILA.
sular dignity. (Suidas, s. v. ; Tzetzes. Chil. viil. Testament into Greck, was a native of Pontus.
696.
) He was a friend of Philostratus (Vit. Soph. Epiphanes (De Pond. et Mens. 15) states, that he
ii. 33. & 4), who praises the strength and fidelity was a relation of the emperor Hadrian, who em-
of his memory, but is afraid to say more for ſcar of ployed him in the rebuilding of Jerusalem (Aelia
being suspected of fattery or partiality. We still Capitolina); that he was converted to Christianity,
possess two rhetorical works of Apsines : 1. Nepd but excommunicated for practising the heathen
Tūv mépwv TOÙ FORTIKOÛ Nóyou té xun, which was astrology; and that he then went over to the
first printed by Aldus in his Rhetores Graeci (pp. Jews, and was circumcised; but this account is
682—726), under the incorrect title texun into probably founded only on vague rumours. All
PIKT) sepà #poosuiw, as it is called by the Scholiast that we know with certainty is, that having been
on Hermogenes (p. 14, but see p. 297). This a heathen he became a Jewish proselyte, and that
work, however, is only a part of a greater work, he lived in the reign of Hadrian, probably about
and is so much interpolated that it is scarcely pos- 130 A. D. (Iren. ii. 24; Euseb. Praep. Eum.
sible to form a correct notion of it. In some of vij. 1 ; Hieron. Ep. ad Pammach. vol. iv. pt. 2,
the interpolated parts Apsines himself is quoted. p. 255, Mart. )
A considerable portion of it was discovered by He translated the Old Testament from Hebrew
Rhunken to belong to a work of Longinus on into Greek, with the purpose of furnishing the
rhetoric, which is now lost, and this portion has Jews who spoke Greek with a version better fitted
consequently been omitted in the new edition of than the Septuagint to sustain them in their op-
Walz in his Rhetores Graeci. (ix. p. 465, &c. ; | position to Christianity. He did not, however, as
comp. Westermann, Gesch. d. Griech. Beredtsamko some have supposed, falsify or pervert the sense of
$ 98, n. 6. ) 2. Tepl Twv fo xauariouévwv #po the original, but he translated every word, even
banud twv, is of little importance and very short. the titles, such as Messiah, with the most literal
It is printed in Aldus' Rhetor. Graec. pp. 727-730, accuracy. This principle was carried to the utmost
and in Walz. Rhetor. Graec. ix. p. 534, &c. (L. S. ) extent in a second edition, which was named kat'
APSYRTUS or ABSYRTUS ("Avuptos), one axpítear. The version was very popular with the
of the principal veterinary surgeons of whom any Jews, in whose synagogues it was read. (Norell.
remains are still extant, was born, according to 146. ) It was generally disliked by the Christians ;
Suidas (s. v. ) and Eudocia (Violar, ap. Villoison, but Jerome, though sometimes showing this feel-
Anecd. Graeca,' vol. i. p. 65), at Prusa or Nico ing, at other times speaks most highly of Aquila
media in Bithynia. He is said to have served and his version. (Quaest. ad Damas. iii. p. 35;
under Constantine in his campaign on the Danube, Epist. ad Marcell. ii. p. 96, ii. p. 312; Quaest.
which is generally supposed to mean that under Heb. in Genes. ii. p. 216; Comment, in Jes. c. 8;
Constantine the Great, A. D. 322, but some refer it Comment. in Hos. c. 2. ) The version is also
to that under Constantine IV. (or Pogonatus), praised by Origen. (Comment. in Joh. viii. p. 131;
A. D. 67). His remains are to be found in the Respons. ad African. p. 224. )
“ Veterinariae Medicinae Libri Duo,” first pub- Only a few fragments remain, which have been
lished in Latin by J. Ruellius, Paris, 1530, fol. , published in the editions of the Hexapla (ORI-
and afterwards in Greek by S. Grynaeus, Basil. GENES), and in Dathe's Opuscula, Lips. 1746. [P. S. )
1537, 4to. Sprengel published a little work en- A'QUILA, JUʻLIUS, a Roman knight, sta-
titled Programma de Apsyrto Bithynio,” Halae, tioned with a few cohorts, in A. D. 50, to protect
1832, 4to.
[W. A. G. ) Cotys, king of the Bosporus, who had received the
A'PTEROS ("ATTTepos), “the wingless," a sur- sovereignty after the expulsion of Mithridates. In
name under which Nice (the goddess of victory) the same year, Aquila obtained the praetorian
had a sanctuary at Athens. "This goddess was insignia. (Tac. Ann. xii. 15, 21. )
usually represented with wings, and their absence A'QUILA, JU’LIUS (GALLUS? ), a Roman
in this instance was intended to signify that Vic- jurist, from whose liber responsorum two fragments
tory would or could never fly away from Athens. concerning tutores are preserved in the Digest. In
The same idea was expressed at Sparta by a statue the Florentine Index he is named Gallus Aquila,
of Ares with his feet chained. (Paus. i. 22. $ 4, probably from an error of the scribe in reading
üi. 15. § 5. )
[L. S. ] Γαλλου for Iουλιου. This has occasioned Julius
APULEIUS. (APPULEIUS. ]
Aquila to be confounded with Aquillius Gallus.
APU'STIA GENS, had the cognomen Fullo. His date is uncertain, though he probably lived
The Apustii who bear no cognomen are spoken of under or before the reign of Septimius Severus,
under APUSTIUS. The first member of this gens A. D. 193-8; for in Dig. 26. tit. 7, s. 34 he gives
who obtained the consulship, was L. Apustius an opinion upon a question which seems to have
Fullo, B. C. 226.
been first settled by Severus. (Dig. 27. tit. 3. &. 1.
APU'STIUS. 1. L. APUSTIUS, the comman- $ 3. ) By most of the historians of Roman law he
der of the Roman troops at Tarentum, B. c. 215. is referred to a later period. He may possibly be
(Liv. xxiii. 38. )
the same person with Lucius Julius Aquila, who
2. L. APUSTIUS, legate of the consul P. Sul- wrote de Etrusoa disciplina, or with that Aquila
picius in Macedonia, B. c. 200, was an active who, under Septimius Severus, was praefect of
officer in the war against Philip. He was after- Egypt, and became remarkable by his persecution of
wards a legate of the consul L. Cornelius Scipio, the Christians. (Majansius, Comm. ad 30 Juriscon.
B. c. 190, and was killed in the same year in an Fragm. vol. ii. p. 288; Otto, in Praef. Thes. vol.
engagement in Lycia. (Liv. xxxi. 27, xxxvii. 4, 1. p. 13; Zimmern, Röm. Rechts-Geschichte, vol. i.
published at Rome by Jo. Phil. de Lignamine, quell the revolt of the army in Germany, A. D. 14.
4to. , without date, but before 1484. It was re- | Apronius was sent to Rome with two others to
printed three times in the sixteenth century, be carry the demands of the mutineers ; and on his
sides being included in two collections of medical return to Germany he served under Germanicus,
writers, and in several editions of the works of and is mentioned as one of the Roman generals in
Appuleius of Madaura. The last and best edition the campaign of A. D. 15. On account of his ser-
is that by Ackermann in his Parabilium Medica- vices in this war he obtained the honour of the
mentorum Scriptores Antiqui, Norimb. 1788, 8vo. triumphal ornaments. (Tac. Ann. i. 29, 56, 72. )
A short work, “ De Ponderibus et Mensuris,” He was in Rome in the following year, a. D. 16
bearing the name of Appuleius, is to be found at ii. 32); and four years afterwards (A. D. 20), he
the end of several editions of Mesue's works. succeeded Camillus, as proconsul, in the government
(Haller, Biblioth. Botan. ; Choulant, Handbuch der of Africa. He carried on the war against Tacfari-
Bücherkunde für die Allere Medicin. ) [W. A. G. ) nas, and enforced military discipline with great
APPULEIUS, L. CAECI'LICUS MINU- severity. (iii. 21. ) He was subsequently the pro-
TIA’NUS, the author of a work de Orthographia, praetor of lower Germany, when the Frivii re-
of which considerable fragments were first published volted, and seems to have lost his life in the war
by A. Mai in “ Juris Civilis Ante-Justinianei Reli- against them. (iv. 73, compared with xi. 19. )
quiae, &c. ,” Rome, 1823. They were republished Apronius had two daughters: one of whom was
by Osann, Darmstadt, 1826, with two other gram- married to Plautius Silvanus, and was murdered
matical works, de Nota Aspirationis and de Diph by her husband (iv. 22); the other was married
thongis, which also bear the name of Appuleius. to Lentulus Gaetulicus, consul in a. D. 26. (vi.
Madvig has shewn (de Apuleii Fragm. de Orthogr. , 30. ) He had a son, L. Apronius Caesianus, who
Hafniae, 1829), that the treatise de Orthographia accompanied his father to Africa in a. D. 20 (iii.
is the work a literary impostor of the fifteenth 21), and who was consul for six months with Cali-
century. The two other grammatical treatises gula in A. D. 39. (Dion Cass. lix. 13. )
above mentioned were probably written in the APRONIA'NUS. 1. C. VIPSTANUS APRO-
tenth century of our aera.
NIANUS, was proconsul of Africa at the accession
A'PRIES ('Arpins, 'Arplas), a king of Egypt of Vespasian, A. D. 70. (Tac. Hist. i. 76. ) He
the 8th of the 26th (Saïte) dynasty, the Pharaoh- is probably the same Apronianus as the consul of
Hophra of Scripture (lxx. Ojappri), the Vaphres that name in A. D. 59.
of Manetho, succeeded his father Psammuthis, B. C. 2. Cassius APRONIANUS, the father of Dion
596. The commencement of his reign was distin- Cassins, the historian, was governor of Dalmatia
guished by great success in war. He conquered and Cilicia at different periods. Dion Cassius was
Palestine and Phoenicia, and for a short time re with his father in Cilicia. (Dion Cass. xlix. 36,
established the Egyptian influence in Syria, which lxix. 1, lxxii. 7. ) Reimar (de Vita Cassii Dionis
had been overthrown by Nebuchadnezzar. He $ 6. p. 1535) supposes, that Apronianus was ad-
failed, however, to protect his ally Zedekiah, king mitted into the senate about A. D. 180.
of Jerusalem, from the renewed attack of Nebu- 3. APRONIANUS, governor of the province of
chadnezzar, who took and destroyed Jerusalem. Asia, was unjustly condemned to death in his
(B. C. 586. ) About the same time, in consequence absence, A. D. 203. (Dion Cass. lxxvi. 8. )
of the failure of an expedition which Apries had 4. APRONIANUS ASTERIUS. (ASTERIUS. )
sent against Cyrene, his army rebelled and elected A'PSINES ('Ayivns). 1. An Athenian 80-
as king Amasis, whom Apries had sent to reconcile phist, called by Suidas (s. v. ; comp. Eudoc. p. 67)
them. The cruelty of Apries to Patarbemis, whom a man worthy of note, and father of Onasimus, but
he had sent to bring back Amasis, and who had otherwise unknown.
failed in the attempt, exasperated the principal 2. A son of Onasimus, and grandson of Apsines
Egyptians to such a degree, that they deserted No. 1, is likewise called an Athenian sophist.
It
him, leaving him only to the protection of an is not impossible that he may be the Apsines
auxiliary force of 30,000 Greeks. With these whose commentary on Demosthenes is mentioned
and the few Egyptians who remained faithful by Ulpian (ad Demosth. Leptin. p. 11; comp. Schol.
to him, Apries encountered Amasis at Momem- ad Hermog. p. 402), and who taught rhetoric at
phis, but his army was overpowered by numbers, Athens at the time of Aedesius, in the fourth cen-
and he himself was taken alive. Amasis tury of our era, though this Apsines is called a
treated him for some time with kindvess, but Lacedaemonian. (Eunap. Vit. Surph. p. 113, ed.
at length, in consequence of the continued mur- Antwerp. 1568. ) This Apsines and his disciples
murs of the Egyptians, he suffered him to be were hostile to Julianus, a contemporary rhetori-
put to death. (Herod. 161, &c. , 169, iv. 159; cian at Athens, and to his school. This enmity grew
Diod. i. 68; Athen. xiii. p. 560; Jerem. xxxvii. 5, 7, so much that Athens in the end found itself in a
xliv. 30, xlvi. 26 ; Ezek. xxix. 3; Joseph. Ant. x. state of civil warfare, which required the presence
9. & 7; AMASIS. )
[P. S. ) of a Roman proconsul to suppress. (Eunap. p. 115,
APRO'NIUS. 1. C. APRONIUS, elected one of &c. )
the tribunes of the plebs on the abolition of the 3. Of Gadara in Phoenicia, a Greek sophist and
decemvirate, B. C. 449. (Liv. iii. 54. )
rhetorician, who flourished in the reign of Maxi-
2. Q. APRONIUS, the chief of the decumani in minus, about A. D. 235. He studied at Smyrna
Sicily during the government of Verres (B. c. 73— under Heracleides, the Lycian, and afterwards at
71), was one of the most distinguished for rapacity Nicomedia under Basilicus. He subsequently
and wickedness of every kind. (Cic. Verr. ii. 44, taught rhetoric at Athens, and distinguished him-
ii. 9, 12, 21, 23. )
self so much that he was honoured with the con-
## p. 252 (#272) ############################################
252
AQUILA.
AQU'ILA.
sular dignity. (Suidas, s. v. ; Tzetzes. Chil. viil. Testament into Greck, was a native of Pontus.
696.
) He was a friend of Philostratus (Vit. Soph. Epiphanes (De Pond. et Mens. 15) states, that he
ii. 33. & 4), who praises the strength and fidelity was a relation of the emperor Hadrian, who em-
of his memory, but is afraid to say more for ſcar of ployed him in the rebuilding of Jerusalem (Aelia
being suspected of fattery or partiality. We still Capitolina); that he was converted to Christianity,
possess two rhetorical works of Apsines : 1. Nepd but excommunicated for practising the heathen
Tūv mépwv TOÙ FORTIKOÛ Nóyou té xun, which was astrology; and that he then went over to the
first printed by Aldus in his Rhetores Graeci (pp. Jews, and was circumcised; but this account is
682—726), under the incorrect title texun into probably founded only on vague rumours. All
PIKT) sepà #poosuiw, as it is called by the Scholiast that we know with certainty is, that having been
on Hermogenes (p. 14, but see p. 297). This a heathen he became a Jewish proselyte, and that
work, however, is only a part of a greater work, he lived in the reign of Hadrian, probably about
and is so much interpolated that it is scarcely pos- 130 A. D. (Iren. ii. 24; Euseb. Praep. Eum.
sible to form a correct notion of it. In some of vij. 1 ; Hieron. Ep. ad Pammach. vol. iv. pt. 2,
the interpolated parts Apsines himself is quoted. p. 255, Mart. )
A considerable portion of it was discovered by He translated the Old Testament from Hebrew
Rhunken to belong to a work of Longinus on into Greek, with the purpose of furnishing the
rhetoric, which is now lost, and this portion has Jews who spoke Greek with a version better fitted
consequently been omitted in the new edition of than the Septuagint to sustain them in their op-
Walz in his Rhetores Graeci. (ix. p. 465, &c. ; | position to Christianity. He did not, however, as
comp. Westermann, Gesch. d. Griech. Beredtsamko some have supposed, falsify or pervert the sense of
$ 98, n. 6. ) 2. Tepl Twv fo xauariouévwv #po the original, but he translated every word, even
banud twv, is of little importance and very short. the titles, such as Messiah, with the most literal
It is printed in Aldus' Rhetor. Graec. pp. 727-730, accuracy. This principle was carried to the utmost
and in Walz. Rhetor. Graec. ix. p. 534, &c. (L. S. ) extent in a second edition, which was named kat'
APSYRTUS or ABSYRTUS ("Avuptos), one axpítear. The version was very popular with the
of the principal veterinary surgeons of whom any Jews, in whose synagogues it was read. (Norell.
remains are still extant, was born, according to 146. ) It was generally disliked by the Christians ;
Suidas (s. v. ) and Eudocia (Violar, ap. Villoison, but Jerome, though sometimes showing this feel-
Anecd. Graeca,' vol. i. p. 65), at Prusa or Nico ing, at other times speaks most highly of Aquila
media in Bithynia. He is said to have served and his version. (Quaest. ad Damas. iii. p. 35;
under Constantine in his campaign on the Danube, Epist. ad Marcell. ii. p. 96, ii. p. 312; Quaest.
which is generally supposed to mean that under Heb. in Genes. ii. p. 216; Comment, in Jes. c. 8;
Constantine the Great, A. D. 322, but some refer it Comment. in Hos. c. 2. ) The version is also
to that under Constantine IV. (or Pogonatus), praised by Origen. (Comment. in Joh. viii. p. 131;
A. D. 67). His remains are to be found in the Respons. ad African. p. 224. )
“ Veterinariae Medicinae Libri Duo,” first pub- Only a few fragments remain, which have been
lished in Latin by J. Ruellius, Paris, 1530, fol. , published in the editions of the Hexapla (ORI-
and afterwards in Greek by S. Grynaeus, Basil. GENES), and in Dathe's Opuscula, Lips. 1746. [P. S. )
1537, 4to. Sprengel published a little work en- A'QUILA, JUʻLIUS, a Roman knight, sta-
titled Programma de Apsyrto Bithynio,” Halae, tioned with a few cohorts, in A. D. 50, to protect
1832, 4to.
[W. A. G. ) Cotys, king of the Bosporus, who had received the
A'PTEROS ("ATTTepos), “the wingless," a sur- sovereignty after the expulsion of Mithridates. In
name under which Nice (the goddess of victory) the same year, Aquila obtained the praetorian
had a sanctuary at Athens. "This goddess was insignia. (Tac. Ann. xii. 15, 21. )
usually represented with wings, and their absence A'QUILA, JU’LIUS (GALLUS? ), a Roman
in this instance was intended to signify that Vic- jurist, from whose liber responsorum two fragments
tory would or could never fly away from Athens. concerning tutores are preserved in the Digest. In
The same idea was expressed at Sparta by a statue the Florentine Index he is named Gallus Aquila,
of Ares with his feet chained. (Paus. i. 22. $ 4, probably from an error of the scribe in reading
üi. 15. § 5. )
[L. S. ] Γαλλου for Iουλιου. This has occasioned Julius
APULEIUS. (APPULEIUS. ]
Aquila to be confounded with Aquillius Gallus.
APU'STIA GENS, had the cognomen Fullo. His date is uncertain, though he probably lived
The Apustii who bear no cognomen are spoken of under or before the reign of Septimius Severus,
under APUSTIUS. The first member of this gens A. D. 193-8; for in Dig. 26. tit. 7, s. 34 he gives
who obtained the consulship, was L. Apustius an opinion upon a question which seems to have
Fullo, B. C. 226.
been first settled by Severus. (Dig. 27. tit. 3. &. 1.
APU'STIUS. 1. L. APUSTIUS, the comman- $ 3. ) By most of the historians of Roman law he
der of the Roman troops at Tarentum, B. c. 215. is referred to a later period. He may possibly be
(Liv. xxiii. 38. )
the same person with Lucius Julius Aquila, who
2. L. APUSTIUS, legate of the consul P. Sul- wrote de Etrusoa disciplina, or with that Aquila
picius in Macedonia, B. c. 200, was an active who, under Septimius Severus, was praefect of
officer in the war against Philip. He was after- Egypt, and became remarkable by his persecution of
wards a legate of the consul L. Cornelius Scipio, the Christians. (Majansius, Comm. ad 30 Juriscon.
B. c. 190, and was killed in the same year in an Fragm. vol. ii. p. 288; Otto, in Praef. Thes. vol.
engagement in Lycia. (Liv. xxxi. 27, xxxvii. 4, 1. p. 13; Zimmern, Röm. Rechts-Geschichte, vol. i.
