A dictionary of Greek and Roman . 270.) The flamines were forbidden by laAV to go intopublic, or even into the open air without the apex(Gell. x. 15), and hence we find the expression ofalicui apicem dialem imponere used as equivalent tothe appointment of a flamen dialis. (Liv. vi. 41.)Sulpicius was deprived of the priesthood, only be-cause the apex fell from his head whilst he wassacrificing. (Val. Max. i. 1. § 4.) Dionysius (ii. 70) describes the cap as being ofa conical form. On ancient monuments we see itround as well as conical. From its various forms,as shown on bas-reliefs
A dictionary of Greek and Roman . 270.) The flamines were forbidden by laAV to go intopublic, or even into the open air without the apex(Gell. x. 15), and hence we find the expression ofalicui apicem dialem imponere used as equivalent tothe appointment of a flamen dialis. (Liv. vi. 41.)Sulpicius was deprived of the priesthood, only be-cause the apex fell from his head whilst he wassacrificing. (Val. Max. i. 1. § 4.) Dionysius (ii. 70) describes the cap as being ofa conical form. On ancient monuments we see itround as well as conical. From its various forms,as shown on bas-reliefs and on coins of the Romanemperors, who as priests were entitled to wear it, we have selected six for the annexed woodcut. Themiddle figure is from a bas-relief, showing one ofthe salii with a rod in his right hand. TheAlbogalerus, or albus galerus was a white cap wornby the flamen dialis, made of the skin of a whitevictim sacrificed to Jupiter, and had the apexfastened to it by means of an olive-twig. (Festus,s. v. albogalerus; Gell. x. 15.). From apex was formed the epithet apicatus,applied to the flamen dialis by Ovid (Fast. ). APHLASTON (&<p\a<TTov). [Navis.] APHORMES DIKE (acpop^s Si/ctj), was theaction brought against a banker or money-lender(Tpa7re(iT7?s), to recover funds advanced for thepurpose of being employed as banking such moneys were also styled irapaK<xra9fi~/ecu, or deposits, to distinguish them from the pri-vate capital of the banker (iUa acpop/xrj), there isan essential difference between the actions acpopfxrjsand irapaKaradriK-ns, as the latter implied that thedefendant had refused to return a deposit intrustedto him, not upon the condition of his paying astated interest for its use, as in the former case,but merely that it might be safe in his keepingtill the affairs of the plaintiff should enable him toresume its possession in security. [Paracata-thece.] The former action was of the class irpdsriua, and came under the jurisd
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