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104 APOPHIORA. APOSTOLEIS.
place. Acccrding to the author of the declama the purpose of carrying on the war ag.inst the
tion on the subject ('A'rrotc-pvVTTde~vos), which has Persians. When Athens acquired the supremacy,
generally been attributed to Lucian, substantial these moneys were called qodpot. (Boickh, ibid.
reasons were required to insure the ratification of p. 396.)
such extraordinary severity. Those suggested in APOPHORE'TA (a&roc0/dp7jra), presents which
the treatise referred to are, deficiency in filial were given to friends at the end of' an entertainattention, riotous living, and profligacy generally. ment, to take. home with them. These presents
A subsequent act of pardon might annul this were usually given on festival da)s, especially
-solemn rejection; but if it were not so avoided, during the Saturnalia. Mlartial giNcs the title of
the son was desnied by his father while alive, and Apopl/orsela to the fourteenth book of his lpiglrasms,
disinherited afterwards. It does not, however, which contains a unumb er of epigrams on the tllills
appear that his privileges as to his tribe or the usually given away as ca)po/orelta-. (Suet. cS7p.
state underwent any alteration. The court of the 19; (l. 55; Octav. 7.5.)
archon must have been that in which causes of APOPHRADES I-EMETAI (&aroq5pcies
this kind were brought forward, and the rejection'Ie.CpaL), unlucky or unfortunate days (dies ne/fisti),
would be completed and declared by the voice of on which n.o public business, nor anly important
the herald (daroKcpv~ai). It is probable that an afftirs of a.ny kind, were transacted at Athens.
adoptive father also might resort to this remedy Such were the last three days but one of every
against the ingratitude of a son. (Meier, Alt. month, and the twenty-fifth day of the month
Process, p. 432, &c.) [J. S. M.] Thargelion, on which the Plynteria were celeAPOLEIPSIS (&ro'uxhAets). [DIvoRTIuM.] brated. (Ese/. M11g. p. 131; Pllt. Alcib. 34;
APOLLINA'RES LUDI). [LunI.] Lucian, Pseudolog. 13; Schunmann, De Colnitiis,
APOLLO'NIA ('A7roXXWcl'a) is the name of a p. 50.)
propitiatory festival solemnized at Sicyon, in honour AP')01.RI-I'LTA (&7ro3jsa), literally " thilgs
of Apollo and Artemis, of which Pausanias (ii. 7. forbidden," has two peculiar, but widely differenlt
~ 7) gives the following account: -Apollo and acceptations in the Attic dialect. In one of these
Artemis, after the destruction of the Python, had it impllies contralanld goods, an enumeration of
wished to be purified at Sicyon (Aeyialea); but which at the different periods of Athenian histolrs,
being driven away by a phantom (whence in after- is given by Bbckh (i'zsl. L'conz. of' Althens, p. 5,3
times a certain spot in the town was called Q4,dos), 2nd ed.); in the other, it dlenotes certain contllthey proceeded to Carmnanos in Crete. Upon this meliolls epithets, fiom the application of which
the inhabitants of Sicyon were attacked by a pesti- both the living and the dead were protected l-y
lence, and the seers ordered them to appease the special laws. (Meier, Att. Process. p. 432.)
deities. Seven boys and the same lsumber of girls Amonlg these, aYabd ovos, rarpaAoLas, and tuerpawere ordered to go to the river Sythas, and bathe Aoias are certainly to be reckoned; and other
in its waters; then to carry the statues of the two words, as th~aawrLs, though not forbidden no;lideities into the temple of Peitho, and from thence naltil by the law, seem to have been equally
back to that of Apollo. Similar rites, says Pausa- actionable. The penalty for using these words
nias, still continue to be observed; for at the fes- was a fine of 500 drachm-ae (Isoc. it Locih. p. 396),
tival of Apollo, the boys go to the river Sythas, recoverable in an action for abusive language
and carry the two deities into the temple of Peitho, (tKamcqeopias). It is surmnised that this fine was iland thence back to that of Apollo. iurred by Meidias in two actions on the occasion
Although festivals under the name of Apollonia, mentioned by Demosthenes (in iliid. pp. 540, 543;
in honour of Apollo, are mentioned in no other see also IIdtwalcker,De Dicetet. p.150). [J.SiM.]
place, still it is not improbable that they existed un- APOSTA'SIOU DIKEI' (aroereaaiou Litcq7).
*der the same name inll other towns of Greece. [L. S.] This is the only private suit which came, as fdlr as
APOPEMPSIS (i7rd7re/LssS). [vDIVORTIUM.] we kllow,. under the exclusive jurisdiction of the
APOPIHANSIS, or APOPHASIS (7ropav- polemarch. (Aristot. De Aith. HRey. quoted by
ots or &.rdpaaos), was the proclamation of the de- Harpocrat.) It could be brouglht against none
cision which the majority of the judges camne to at but a freedman (a&reXAe;iepos), aid the only prothe end of a trial, and was thus also used to signlify secutor permitted to appear was the citizen to
the day on which the trial took place. (Dem. c. whom he had been indebted for his liberty, unless
Eueryet. p. 1153; Lex Rlietor. p. 210.) The word this privilege was transmitted to the sons of such
was also employed to indicate the account of a former master. The tenor of the accusation was,
person's property, which was obliged to be givens that there had been a default in duty to the plrowhen an antidosis was demanded. [ANTIDOSIS.] secutor; but what attentiolls might be claimed
APO'PHIORA (U'&roqopd), which properly means from the freedman, we are not informed. It is
"produce or profit" of any kind, was used at said, however, that the greatest delict of this kind
Athens to signify the profit which accrued to minas- was the selection of a patrlon (urpoosd-r-qs) other
ters from their slaves. It thus signified the sum than the former master. If convicted, tile defendwvhich slaves paid to their masters when they la- ant was publicly sold; but if acquitted, the unboured on their own account, and the sum which prosperous connection ceased for ever, and the
masters received when they let out their slaves on freedlman vas at liberty to select anly citizen for
hire either for the mines or any other kind of his patron. The patron could also sulmmarily.abour, and also the money which was paid by the punish the above-mentioned delinquencies of hIis
state for the use of the slaves who served in the freedman by private inlcarceration without any
fleet. (Dem. c. Apihob. i. p; 819, c. Nicostr. p. legal award. (Petit. Leg. 4 ttic. p. 261.) [J. S. M.]
1253; Andoc. Deo f lgster. p. 19; Xen. Rep. A/li. APOSTOLEIS (r.LorroN), ten public officers
1.11; Bickhi, Paubl. Econ. of 4tAens, p. 72, 2nd ed.) at Athens, whose duty it was to see that the ships
The term apophora was also applied to the money were properly equipped and provided by those
which was paid by the allied states to Sparta, for who were bound to discharge the trirarchy.