was of such an irascible disposition, that he destroyed his own pieces upon the least provocation. _Pliny_, bk. 34, ch. 8.――――A rhetorician of Pergamus, preceptor and friend to Augustus, who wrote a book on rhetoric. _Strabo_, bk. 13.――――A tragic poet of Tarsus. ――――A Lemnian who wrote on husbandry.――――A physician of Tarentum. ――――Another of Cytium. =Apollonia=, a festival at Ægialea in honour of Apollo and Diana. It arose from this circumstance: these two deities came to Ægialea, after the conquest of the serpent Python; but they were frightened away, and fled to Crete. Ægialea was soon visited with an epidemical distemper, and the inhabitants, by the advice of their prophets, sent seven chosen boys, with the same number of girls, to entreat them to return to Ægialea. Apollo and Diana granted their petition, in honour of which a temple was raised to πειθω, the goddess of _persuasion_; and ever after a number of youths, of both sexes, were chosen to march in solemn procession, as if anxious to bring back Apollo and Diana. _Pausanias_, _Corinth_.――――A town of Mygdonia, ――――of Crete,――――of Sicily,――――on the coast of Asia Minor.――――Another on the coast of Thrace, part of which was built on a small island of Pontus, where Apollo had a temple.――――A town of Macedonia, on the coasts of the Adriatic.――――A city of Thrace.――――Another on mount Parnassus. =Apolloniădes=, a tyrant of Sicily, compelled to lay down his power by Timoleon. =Apollonias=, the wife of Attalus king of Phrygia, to whom she bore four children. =Apollonĭdes=, a writer of Nicæa.――――A physician of Cos at the court of Artaxerxes, who became enamoured of Amytis, the monarch’s sister, and was some time after put to death for slighting her after the reception of her favours.