The works of the Reverend and learned John Lightfoot D. D., late Master of Katherine Hall in Cambridge such as were, and such as never before were printed : in two volumes : with the authors life and large and useful tables to each volume : also three maps : one of the temple drawn by the author himself, the others of Jervsalem and the Holy Land drawn according to the author's chorography, with a description collected out of his writings.

§. 7. Apion.

Among the five, or three Ambassadors of a side, (as Josephus and Philo differ in their number) the most renowned in their contrary and differing kinds were Apion the Greek, and Philo the Jew; the others are wholly nameless, and their memory extinct, but these two have left a perpetuation of theirs behind them by their writings.

Apion was an Egyptian, born in the utmost borders thereof in a place called Oasis, but fained himself for an Alexandrian. A man given to the Grecian studies of Philoso∣phy, but with more vainglory than solidity. He not contented, to have been a perso∣nal accuser of the Jews to Caius in that their Embassie, wrote also bitterly against them in his Egyptian History, to disgrace them to posterity. Of which Josephus that wrote two books in answer of him giveth this censure. That some things that he had written were like to what others had written before, other things very cold, some calumnious, and some very unlearned. And the end and death of this blackmouthed railer he describeth thus, To me it seemeth, that he was justly punished for his blasphemies, even against his own Country laws, for he was circumcised of necessity, having an ulcer about his privities, and be∣ing nothing helped by the cutting or circumcising, but putrifying with miserable pains, he died, Contr. Apion. lib. 2.