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 aS*. A P O N O. knowledge of the feven liberal arts, by means of the feveir " ^ am 'l' ar fp"ts, which he kept inclofed in a cryftal ; that " he had the dexterity (like another Pafetes) to make the fame author adds, that he died before the procefs againft him was finifhed, being then in the eightieth year of his age ; and that after his death, they ordered him to be burnt in effigy, in the public place of the city of Padua; defigning thereby to terrify others, and alfo to fupprefs the reading of three books which he had written. The fuft is the " Hep- of Agrippa's work; the fecond, that which is called by Tri- themius, " Elucidarium necromanticum petri uc; Apono;'' and the lad, intided by the fame author, " Liber experi- " mentorum mirabilium de annulis fccundtim xxviii. man- JVid.p.jSo.*' fiones lunas." His body being fecretly taken up by his friends, efcaped the vigilance of the inquifitors, who would have burnt it. It was removed feveral times, and was at Tcmafini laft placed in the church of St. Auguftin, without any epi- Eiog. viror. ta ph or an y mark of honour. The moft remarkable book Vo/'de" 14 " which Apono wrote, was that which procured him the fur- Scien. Ma- name of Conciliator; he wrote alfo a piece intituled " De themat. c medicina omnimcda." There is a ftory told of him, that, Tomazo having no well in his houfe, he caufcd his neighbour's to be Garfoni carried into the ftreet by devils, when he heard they had for- puzza u /'- bidden his maid fetching water there. He had much better, tutti profeff. ky 8 ^ a v' e have employed the devils to make a well in his iifcorfo, ibi. own houfe, and have flopped up his neighbour's ; or, atieaftj 35- ver - tranfported it into his houfe, rather than into the ftreet. 305. Fabric. Bib. APPIAN, an eminent hiftcrian, who wrote the Roman Gn Lib. iv. ' j n t ^ e Greek language, flouriihed under the reigns Phot.' Bibl- f ^ e e mp c rors Trajan and Adrian; and fpeaits of the Cod. 57. deftru&ion of Jeiufa'em, 35 of an event which happened in Debdi.Syr. n j s ti me. He was born of a good family in Alexandria, from ed.H.^teph. wnence ^ e went to Rome, and there diftinguiflied himfelf 3591. fo much at the bar, that he was chofen one of the procurators of the emperor, and the government of a province was com- mitted to him. He wrote the Roman hiftory in a very pe- culiar method ; he did not compile it in a continued feries, after the n anner of Livy, but wrote diftin6l hittories of all the nations that had been conquered by the Romans, and placed every thing relating to thofe nations in one connected and uninterrupted narrative. It was divided into three vo- Jumes, v/hich contained twenty-four books, or twenty-two 7 according
 * ie, ch. 14. money he had fpent, come hack into his purfe." The
 * tameron," which is printed at the end of the firft volume