. heinhabitants of Alexandria at the head of anembassy to Caligula to bring forward complaintsagainst the Jews residing in their city. Apionwas the author of many works, all of which arenow lost. Of these the most celebrated wereupon the Homeric poems. The extant glossesbearing his name are not genuine, but thosewhich he did write were used by Apollonius theSophist in his Homeric Lexicon. He alsowrote a work on Egypt in 5 books, ana a workagainst the Jews, to which Josephus replied inhis treatise Against , Ftolemaeus. [Pto
. heinhabitants of Alexandria at the head of anembassy to Caligula to bring forward complaintsagainst the Jews residing in their city. Apionwas the author of many works, all of which arenow lost. Of these the most celebrated wereupon the Homeric poems. The extant glossesbearing his name are not genuine, but thosewhich he did write were used by Apollonius theSophist in his Homeric Lexicon. He alsowrote a work on Egypt in 5 books, ana a workagainst the Jews, to which Josephus replied inhis treatise Against , Ftolemaeus. [Ptolemaeus Apion.]Apis CAms). 1. The Bull of Memphis, wor-shipped as a god among the Egyptians. ThisApis was regarded as the incarnation of thesupreme god Ptah, the god of the sun, andidentified with Osiris, whence Apis is called byGreek writers an incarnation of Osiris (Strab. ; Diod. i. 85; Plut. Is. 20,29). The Egyptiansheld the new Apis to be bom from a cow uponwhom a spark from heaven fell at the death ofthe original Apis [see Serapis]. The symbol of. Apia i WtlklnaonB ). Apis was a bull with the sun-disk between itshorns, the regular Egyptian symbol for tin? worship was maintained of the livingincarnate Apis (as well as of the dead Osiris-Apis, or Serapis) and the great temple for hiehonour was at Memphis. He was calledEpaphus by the Greeks and regarded as the 88 APIS son of Isis (Hdt. ii. 153). There were certainsigns by which lie was recognised to be the was requisite that he should be quite black,have a white square mark on the forehead, onhis back a figure similar to that of an eagle,have two kinds of hair in his tail, and on histongue a knot in the shape of a beetle. Whenall these signs were discovered, the animalwas consecrated with great pomp, and wasconveyed to Memphis. His birthday, whichwas celebrated every year, was his most solemnfestival ; it was a day of rejoicing for allEgypt (Hdt. iii. 28 ; Aelian, H. A. xi. 11). Thegod was allo
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