he suddenly exclaimed, “Strike the tyrant, strike him; the blow is given, he is wounded, and fallen!” At that very moment the emperor Domitian had been stabbed at Rome. The magician acquired much reputation when this circumstance was known. He was courted by kings and princes, and commanded unusual attention by his numberless artifices. His friend and companion, called Damis, wrote his life, which 200 years after engaged the attention of Philostratus. In his history the biographer relates so many curious and extraordinary anecdotes of the hero, that many have justly deemed it a romance; yet for all this, Hierocles had the presumption to compare the impostures of Apollonius with the miracles of Jesus Christ.――――A sophist of Alexandria, distinguished for his _Lexicon Græcum Iliadis et Odysseæ_, a book that was beautifully edited by Villoison, in 4to, 2 vols., Paris, 1773. Apollonius was one of the pupils of Didymus, and flourished in the beginning of the first century.――――A physician. ――――A son of Sotades at the court of Ptolemy Philadelphus.――――Syrus, a Platonic philosopher.――――Herophilus, wrote concerning ointments. ――――A sculptor of Rhodes. =Apollŏphănes=, a Stoic, who greatly flattered king Antigonus, and maintained that there existed but one virtue, prudence. _Diogenes Laërtius._――――A physician in the court of Antiochus. _Polybius_, bk. 5.――――A comic poet. _Ælian_, _De Natura Animalium_, bk. 6. =Apomyīos=, a surname of Jupiter. =Aponiana=, an island near Lilybæum. _Hirtius_, _African War_, ch. 2. =Marcus Aponius=, a governor of Mœsia, rewarded with a triumphal statue by Otho, for defeating 9000 barbarians. _Tacitus_, _Histories_, bk. 1, ch. 79. =Apŏnus=, now _Abano_, a fountain, with a village of the same name, near Patavium in Italy. The waters of the fountain, which were hot, were wholesome, and were supposed to have an oracular power. _Lucan_, bk. 7, li. 194.――_Suetonius_, _Tiberius_, ch. 14. =Apostrophia=, a surname of Venus in Bœotia, who was distinguished under these names, Venus Urania, Vulgaria, and Apostrophia. The former was the patroness of a pure and chaste love; the second of carnal and sensual desires; and the last incited men to illicit and unnatural gratifications, to incests, and rapes. Venus Apostrophia was invoked by the Thebans, that they might be saved from such unlawful desires. She is the same as the Verticordia of the Romans. _Pausanias_, bk. 9, ch. 16.――_Valerius Maximus_, bk. 8, ch. 15.