=Apollināres ludi=, games celebrated at Rome in honour of Apollo. They originated from the following circumstance. An old prophetic poem informed the Romans, that if they instituted yearly games to Apollo, and made a collection of money for his service, they would be able to repel the enemy whose approach already threatened their destruction. The first time they were celebrated, Rome was alarmed by the approach of the enemy, and instantly the people rushed out of the city, and saw a cloud of arrows discharged from the sky on the troops of the enemy. With this heavenly assistance they easily obtained the victory. The people generally sat crowned with laurel at the representation of these games, which were usually celebrated at the option of the pretor, till the year A.U.C. 545, when a law was passed to settle the celebration yearly on the same day about the nones of July. When this alteration happened, Rome was infested with a dreadful pestilence, which, however, seemed to be appeased by this act of religion. _Livy_, bk. 25, ch. 12. =Apollināris, Caius Sulpitius=, a grammarian of Carthage, in the second century, who is supposed to be the author of the verses prefixed to Terence’s plays as arguments.――――A writer better known by the name of Sidonius. _See:_ Sidonius. =Apollinīdes=, a Greek in the wars of Darius and Alexander, &c. _Curtius_, bk. 4, ch. 5. =Apollĭnis arx=, a place at the entrance of the Sibyl’s cave. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 6.――――Promontorium, a promontory of Africa. _Livy_, bk. 30, ch. 24.――――Templum, a place in Thrace,――――in Lycia. _Ælian_, _Varia Historia_, bk. 6, ch. 9.