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 APAUUA. 1. (^ KtCnJi), ■ town of Piiljp», boat ll«r Cdioae b^ Anttorliai |So4er, uid named liter hia mother A^ubl SUibo (p. 5T7) hji, Ihit " the ton lis rt th« Boorea (intiAiut) of the Huiju, bniigiB Kigiii in tb* dtj, tod being cmirieddoini tDtbenbub* mth UTiokatand predptotucomnt it jgiM Ite Huander." Thii puwgt mtj not be ftte {run comptioa, bnt it ii not impnred bj Gnbrd'i cmBidalioo ((ifrauM TraiuL ofStrabo, •BLiLp-SSl). SInbo obMina that the Mieinder ncmvKj befure it* jitn<:tk]D with the Umtaju, a, mwa called OnWi vbich 6om goitlj tbrnigh m leManntiy [MiiAHDKR]. Thi«T»jud BtrtBm ie olbd Citurhactet by Hendotos (vii. 26). The Btc of ApaiDei& is now fixed at iJenatr^ where Ihfin mpoDdiu^ to Straho'a deicripticui (Kit- orola, |i!. id. iL p. 499). Leike (JjuJftMr.p. 15E,&c.)hu(a)llDclcdtheiiident twtiiaawfi H to Apamda. AnindeU {fiitcoveria, 4c,nL i p. SOI) vu the fint who ckarlr uw tbn Afamda mnat be at Dtnair ; and hi) condn- imi m tha fivgiiKiit of a white marble, whidi re- eordad the crectioo of aoma monamenc at Apunda by Ike DegutiaKma naident thaie. Hamilton coped aenoJ Grack inacriptkna at JJouur (Appendix, Tgl. iL). The name Cibolni appean on tome coins ti ^]*r"*r*^ and it baa bcrn omjecCnred that it wait K (alkd frmn the wealth that was collected m this pfflt eoparium; fcr iiCvTiiT in a cheat or coffer. Pboj (t. as) ujs that it waa Gnt Celaenae, then CJbotDi, and then Apameia; vhieh cannot be qnite oncct, becanaa C e la e nae was a different place from Apamoa, thoDgh near iL But there aaj hate la a place sn the uta of ApMndi, which was aDed Cibotna. Then are the remains of a theatre ami othfT andent mios at Denair. Who Strabo wnMB Apameia waa a place of gnat tiade in ihe Kocoaa pnmncs of Ada, next in im purtvicfl lo Ephceos. Its comnierM was owing 1 its pgotioii w the gieat rotd to Cap^Bdnda, and . w abo the oentic of other reads. When Cicero was iramsnl of Cihda, b. c. 51. Apameia wi wiUun bis jurisdiction (ad Fam. liii. 67), bot tl ^V****^ to the pnrrince of A^a. Pliny eonmeratt ■I toma wbich belooged to the eoorentua of Api ■da. and he obserrea that then wen nine otiiei rfEulemle. lbs eoantij aboat Apameia has been ahskeo bj earthqaakea, cue of wbich is recorded hijuiMil in the lime of Clandios (Tadt. Atai xsL. U); and on this occasion the payment of taxes tD the BamMia waa remitted (or five yearg. '" hot gfHiamaacns (Aihen. p. 33S) reonta a r, ^■rtblMakt at Apameia at a pnviona date, d tin Jljtbridaiic war: lakea appeared where w« betfen, and riren and springs ; and tnany which existad beAn disappeared. Stiabo (p. 579) speaks etfibia great catastrophe, and of other crainilBioi rt aa earlier period. Apamds continued to be p«|i B Uii s town under the Boman empire, and ■'—■■—■■-' b; Qierocla among Ihe eptcepaJ dtii •f Piudia, to which diTlsion it had beoi transfeired. TkU IsirfNi APENNINUS. 1!« bhalied hen and ecen that St Panl Tisited the place lor he went thronehaut PhijEia But the men Qrcnnutance of the lemtms of a chnith at Apameia prarei nothui); as to the tune when Cbtis- tumty was eetabliahed then. A dty it Partbia, near Bhagae (Aey). Rhagae waa £00 Madia Inm the Caapiae Pylac (Strab. p> S13.) Apameia was one of the towns built in these parts by the Greeks after the Mace- donian ccmquests ui Asia. It teems to be the same Apameia which is meutioned by Ammianus ^Inr- cellinui (iiiiL 6). [G. L,] APANKSTAE, or APENESTAE (A.wJara.), a town m the coast tji Apulis, placed by Ptolemy among the Daimian Apuliana, near Sipontam, riiny, CD Ilie contrary, enumerates the Ataehes- TiNt, probably the tame people, among the " Cala- brorum Medilenand." But it has been plBUribly conjectund that ' Aineeto,' a name otherwise un- known, which appears iu the Itin. Ant. (p. 315), between Barium and Kguatis, is a cormption of the same name. If this be correct, the distanoee there given would lead ua to phue it st S. Vilo, S miles W. of PoIiffnanOy where there an some remains of an ancient town. (Plin. iii. 11,16: Ptd. iii. 1. §16; Bumandli, loL iL p. 1S5.) [E.H.B.] AFARNI, [PABiii.] APATU'BUM, OP APATITBUS ("AirdTaupw, Sliab.; "AwiiToupoi, Slepb. fl., PtoL^ a town of the Sindae, on the Fonius Euxinus, near the Boe^ poms Clmmerius, wbich waa almost uninhahited in Pliny's lime. It posseeaed a celebnted temple of Aphrodite Apatuma (the Decdver); and then waa also a temple to this goddess in the ndghbouring town of Pbanagoria, (Strah. li. p.49Sj FUn. li. E; PtoL Y. 9. g 5; Steph, B. a. e.) AFAVARCTICE'KE ('Airiua^iiTi(i)rA, Ind. Char. pp. 2, 7, ed. Hudson; 'AprunjiH^, or HapaiHi- Turririi, PtoL tL S. § 1 ; Ap*vortei(e, Fhn. tl 16. s. 18; Zafaobteme, Justin, xh. 5), a diiirict of Farthia, in the south-eastern part of thecouDtiy, with a strongly fortified dty, called Dareium, or Dara, built by Arsacee 1., situated on the mounluju of the Zaiaorteui. (Justin. L c.) APENNI'NUS MOSS (i 'Av/mroi, ri "Aiffo. riyor opoi. The singular form is generally used, in Greek as well as Latin, but both Pdybius and Stratio Dccasionally bsTe td 'JLrimn jpn. In Latin the dugular only is used by the best writereY The.Jpeninn«t,B chain of mnunlains which traiersta almost the whole length of Italy, and may be coo- ndered as constituting the backbone of that coun- ^1 and determining its configuiatjoo and physical characters. The name is probably of Celtic origin, aod cnntaina the root Pen, a head or height, wUdi is found in all the Celtic dialects. Whether it may originally hare been apphed to some particular mass or group of mountama, from which it was subse- quently extended to the whole chain, as the dngulir
 * ad tkt liTB- Ban tliniDKli tin middle rf the dtj,