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the Silli of Timon. (Diog. Lairt. ix. 109.) lHe Punic war, as to whether they were to join the
wrote several works, all of which are lost.- Carthaginians or the Romans, insisted upon the
1. A commentary on Demosthenes' oration Irepi necessity of acting with decision either the one or
reapaerpeaeLas. (Ammon. s. v. o6lpAewt.) 2. On fic- the other way, as division on this point would lead
titious stories (nepl icaresTev'-pc'vwv), of which the to inevitable ruin. At the same time, he suggested
third and eighth books are mentioned. (Ammon. that it would be advantageous to remain faithful
s. v. IcaroiKc7ous; Anonym. in Vita Arati.) 3. A to the Romans. (Liv. xxiv. 28.)
work on proverbs. (Steph. Byz. s. v. Tepwva.) 12. A TRAGIc poet, concerning whom nothing
4. A work on Ion, the tragic poet. (Harpocrat. is known. Two verses of one of his dramas are
s. v. "ILw.) An Apollonides, without any -state- preserved in Clemens of Alexandria (Paedyaop.
ment as to what was his native country, is men- iii. 12) and Stobaeus. (Sermon. 76.) [L. S.]
tioned by Strabo (vii. p. 309, xi. pp. 523, 528), APOLLO'NIDES ('A oAAwviFa?). 1. A Greek
Pliny (PI. N. vii. 2), and by the Scholiast on physician and surgeon, was born at Cos, and, like
Apollonius Rhodius (iv. 983, 1174; comp. ii. 964), many other of his countrymen, went to the court
as the author of a work called replhrAos Trs Evpdirjns. of Persia, under Artaxerxes Longimanus, B. c. 465
Stobaeus (Florileg. Ixvii. 3, 6) quotes some senarii -425. Here he cured Megabyzus, the king's
from one Apollonides. brother-in-law, of a dangerous wound, baut was
6. An OLYNTHIAN general who used his in- afterwards engaged in a sinful and scandalous
fluence at Olynthus against Philip of Macedonia. amour with his wife, Amytis, who was herself a
The king, with the assistance of his intriguing most profligate woman. For this offence Apolloagents in that town, contrived to induce the people nides was given up by Artaxerxes into the hands
to send Apollonides into exile. (Demosth. Philip. of his mother, Amestris, who tortured him for
iii. pp. 125, 128.) Apollonides went to Athens, about two months, and at last, upon the death of
where he was honoured with the civic franchise; her daughter, ordered him to be buried alive.
but being found unworthy, he was afterwards de- (Ctesias, De Reb. Pers. ~~ 30, 42, pp. 40, 50, ed.
prived of it. (Demosth. c. Neaer. p. 1376.), Lion.)
7. Surnamed ORAPIUS or Horapius, wrote a 2. Another Greek physician, who must have
work on Egypt, entitled Semenuthi (EscevaovOi), 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 Cocas. Pzls. iii. 9, vol. ix.
the historyand religion of the Egyptians. (Theo- pp. 138, 139) to have differed from Archigenes
phil. Alex. ii. 6; 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 SICYON. When in B.c. 186 the great is sometimes confounded with Apollonius of Cysongress was held at Megalopolis, and king Eumenes prus, a mistake which has arisen from reading
wished to form an alliance with the Achaeans, and 'AsroAAhwvrLov instead of 'AiroAAwvov in the pas1ffered them a large sum of money as a present sage of Galen where the latter physician is menwith a view of securing their favour, Apollonides tioned. [APOLLONIUS CYPRIUS.] He may perhaps
)f Sicyon strongly opposed the Achaeans' accepting be the same person who is mentioned by Artemi-he money, as something unworthy of them, and dorus (Oneirocr. iv. 2), and Attius (tetrab. ii.
vhich would expose them to the influence of the sernm. iv. c. 48. p. 403), in which, last passage the
cing. He was supported by some other distin- name is spelled Apolloniades. (Fabricius, Bibl. Gr.;uished Achaeans, and they magnanimously re- vol. xiii. p. 74, ed. vet.) [W. A. G.]
used accepting the money. (Polyb. xxiii. 8.) At APOLLO'NIUS ('AsroXivlros), historical. 1.
his congress Roman ambassadors also had been The son of Charinus, appointed by Alexander the
iresent, and after their return, Spartan and Achaean Great, before leaving Egypt, as governor of the
mbassadors went to Rome, B. c. 185. Among the part of Libya on the confines of Egypt, B. c. 331.
itter was Apollonides, who endeavoured to ex- (Arrian, Anab. iii. 5; Curtius, iv. 8.)
lain to the Roman senate the real state of affairs 2. A friend of Demetrius, the son of Seleucus,
t Sparta, against the Spartan ambassadors, and to who accompanied Demetrius when he went to
indicate the conduct of Philopoemen and the Rome as a hostage, B. c. 175, and supported himin
ichaeans against the charges of the Spartans. with his advice. Apollonius had been educated
Polyb. xxiii. 11, 12.) At the outbreak of the together with Demetrius, and their two families
rar between the Romans and Perseus of Mace- had been long connected by friendship. The faonia, Apollonides advised his countrymen not to ther of Apollonius, who bore the same name, had
ppose the Romans openly, but at the same time possessed great influence with Seleucus. (Polyb.
e censured severely those who were for throwing xxxi. 19, 21.)
lemselves into their hands altogether. (Polyb. 3. The spokesman of an embassy sent by Ancviii. 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 rele of the treasurers to check the system of squan- quested that the senate would renew with Antio-,ring the public money which had been carried chus the alliance which had existed between his
i for some tilne by Chaeron, a low demagogue. father and the Romans. (Liv. Iii. 6.).s Apollonides was the person whom Chaeron 4. Of Clazomenae, was sent, together with
Id most to fear, he had him assassinated by his Apollonides, in B. c. 170, as ambassador to king
aissaries. (Polyb. xxv. 8; CHAERON.) Antiochus after he had made himself master of
10. A STOIC philosopher, with whom Cato the Egypt. (Polyb. xxviii. 16.)
ounger conversed on the subject of suicide shortly 5. One of the principal leaders during the revolt
*fore he committed this act at Utica. (Plut. Cat. of the slaves in Sicily, which had been brought
hin. 65, 66, 69.) about by one Titus Minucius, in B. c. 103. The
11. A SRvaAcusAN, who, during the dissensions senate sent L. Lucullus with an army against him,
long his fellow-citizens, in the time of the second and by bribes and the promise of impunity he in