Chapter Anvil to Apostolic Fathers of A by Brewer's Readers Handbook

(There was another of the name in the reign of Trajan, who wrote a cooking-book and manual of sauces.)

No Brahmin could abominate your meal more than I do. Hirtius and Apicius would have blushed for it. Mark Antony, who roasted eight whole boars for supper, never massacred more at a meal than you have done.—Cumberland: The Fashionable Lover, i. I (1780).

Apocrypha (The) properly means the hidden books. Writings may be so called—

(1) Because the name of the author is hidden or not certainly known.

(2) Because the book or books have not been openly admitted into the canon of Scripture.

(3) Because they are not accepted as divinely inspired, and no doctrine can be proved by them.

(4) Because they have been issued by heretics to justify their errors.

The fourteen books of the Apocrypha (sometimes bound up with our Scriptures) are included in the Septuagint version, and were accepted at the Council of Trent in 1546. In the Church of England much was excluded in 1871.

Apollo, in Homeric mythology, is the embodiment of practical wisdom and foresight, of swift and far- reaching intelligence, and hence of poetry, music, etc.

The Apollo Belvidere, that is, the Apollo preserved in the Belvidere gallery of the Vatican, discovered in 1503 amidst the ruins of Antium, and purchased by pope Julius II. It is supposed to be the work of Calamis, a Greek sculptor of the fifth century B.C.

The Apollo of Actium was a gigantic statue, which served for a beacon.

The Apollo of Rhodes, usually called the colossus, was a gigantic bronze statue, 150 feet high, made by Charês, a pupil of Lysippus, and set up B.C. 300.

Animals consecrated to Apollo, the cock, the crow, the grasshopper, the hawk, the raven, the swan, and the wolf.

Apollo, the sun.

Apollo’s angry, and the heavens themselves
Do strike at my injustice.
   —Shakespeare: Winter’s Tale, act iii. sc. 2.

Apollonius of Tyre, a British romance, printed under the care of Ben Thorpe. It is a story similar to that of “Pericles, prince of Tyre,” by Shakespeare.

Apollonius Rhodius, author of a Greek epic poem in four books, greatly admired by the Romans, and translated into Latin by Varro. There are several English translations. One by Fawkes and Meen, in 1780. In verse by Greene, in 1750; and by Preston, in 1803. (See Argonautic Expedition, p. 58.)

N. B.—Apollonius was born in Alexandria, but he migrated to Rhodes, where he was so much admired that they called him the Rhodian. He returned to Alexandria, and was made librarian. He flourished B. C. 222-181.

Apollyon, king of the bottomless pit; introduced by Bunyan in his Pilgrim’s Progress. Apollyon encounters Christian, by whom, after a severe contest, he is foiled (1678). (Greek, apollumi, “to ruin.”)

Apostle or Patron Saint of—

Abyssinians, St. Frumentius (died 360). His day is October 27.