has been taken for the sun; but it may be proved by different passages in the ancient writers, that Apollo, the Sun, Phœbus, and Hyperion, were all different characters and deities, though confounded together. When once Apollo was addressed as the Sun, and represented with a crown of rays on his head, the idea was adopted by every writer, and from thence arose the mistake. _Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 1, fables 9 & 10; bk. 4, fable 3, &c. ――_Pausanias_, bk. 2, ch. 7; bk. 5, ch. 7; bk. 7, ch. 20; bk. 9, ch. 30, &c.――_Hyginus_, fables 9, 14, 50, 93, 140, 161, 202, 203, &c. ――_Statius_, bk. 1, _Thebiad_, li. 560.――_Tibullus_, bk. 2, poem 3. ――_Plutarch_, _de Amore Prolis_.――_Homer_, _Iliad_ & _Hymn to Apollo_.――_Virgil_, _Æneid_, bks. 2, 3, &c.; _Georgics_, bk. 4, li. 323.――_Horace_, bk. 1, ode 10.――_Lucian_, ♦_Dialogi Deorum_. ――_Propertius_, bk. 1, poem 28.――_Callimachus_, _Hymn to Apollo_. ――_Apollodorus_, bk. 1, chs. 3, 4, & 9; bk. 2, ch. 5; bk. 3, chs. 5, 10, & 12.――――One of the ships in the fleet of Æneas. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 10, li. 171.――――Also a temple of Apollo upon mount Leucas, which appeared at a great distance at sea; and served as a guide to mariners, and reminded them to avoid the dangerous rocks that were along the coast. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 3, li. 275. ♦ ‘Dial. Mer. & Vulc.’ replaced with ‘Dialogi Deorum’ =Apollocrătes=, a friend of Dion, supposed by some to be the son of Dionysius. =Apollodōrus=, a famous grammarian and mythologist of Athens, son of Asclepias and disciple to Panætius the Rhodian philosopher. He flourished about 115 years before the christian era, and wrote a history of Athens, besides other works. But of all his compositions, nothing is extant but his _Bibliotheca_, a valuable work, divided into three books. It is an abridged history of the gods, and of the ancient heroes, of whose actions and genealogy it gives a true and faithful account. The best edition is that of Heyne, Göttingen, in 8vo, 4 vols., 1782. _Athenæus._――_Pliny_, bk. 7, ch. 37.――_Diodorus_, bks. 4 & 13.――――A tragic poet of Cilicia, who wrote tragedies entitled Ulysses, Thyestes, &c.――――A comic poet of Gela in Sicily, in the age of Menander, who wrote 47 plays.――――An architect of Damascus, who directed the building of Trajan’s bridge across the Danube. He was put to death by Adrian, to whom, when in a private station, he had spoken in too bold a manner.――――A writer who composed a history of Parthia.――――A disciple of Epicurus, the most learned of his school, and deservedly surnamed the illustrious. He wrote about 40 volumes on different subjects. _Diogenes Laërtius._ ――――A painter of Athens, to whom Zeuxis was a pupil. Two of his paintings were admired at Pergamus, in the age of Pliny; a priest in a suppliant posture, and Ajax struck with Minerva’s thunders. _Pliny_, bk. 35, ch. 9.――――A statuary in the age of Alexander. He