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 A P I O N. 277 among the reft. H.lf his apology has nothing to do with Apion; though it has often be< n quoted, as if the whole was levelled againft him. Apion was not living, when this confutation was publifhed, for it relates the manner r,f his death, which was fmgular enough : fingular, I mean, with icgard to Apion, who, having greatly ridiculed jewiftl ceremonies, and circumcifion in particular, was feized at length with a difeafe, which required an operation in the privy parts ; and which, though fubmittcd to, could not pre- vent him from dying under the molt agonizing tortures. Apion boafted, that he had roufed the foul of Homer from the dead, to enquire concerning his country and f.imily ; andPHn-*xx. 2. we learn from Seneca, that he impofed very'much up >n Greece, fmce he was received in every city as a fecond I-K mer : which (hews, as Bayle obfervcs, that " a man, " with fome learning, and a good fhare of impudence and " vanity, may eah'ly deceive the people in general." APOLLINARIS (C. SULPITIUS), an eminent gram- marian, was born (as is faid) at Caithage, and lived under the Antcniiaes. Helvius Pertinax, who had been his ftholar, was his fucceflbr in the profeffion of grammar, and at length became Emperor. He is fuppofed the author of the verles, J u j- c .ap- prefixed to the comedies of Terence, and containing thep^"^"^ argument of them. The following diitich by him was writ- ten upon the order Virgil gave to burn his /Eneid : Infelix alio cecidit prope Pergamon igne, Et pene eft alio Troja cremata rogo : which makes us, fays Bayle, regret the lofs of other things ofoift. io his. Aulus Gellius, who ftudied- under him, gives t higheft idea of his learning; but he gives him another quali- fication, which is more valuable than learning : namely, that he had nothing of that pedantic arrogance, nothing of that magifterial air, which but too often makes learning fo very difa^reeable, and even raifes emotions of contempt and anger towards men, even in the moment when they are in- ftrucling us. See what Gellius fays of Apollinaris in many places, and particularly in the 4th chapter of the iSth book. APOLLINARIS (SiDowius). See SIDONIUS. APOLLODORUS the Athenian, a famous grammarian, was the fon of Afclepiades, and difciple of Ariftarchus, as .Suidas informs us, He wrote feveral works, which are not T 3 extant: