. Universal historical dictionary, or, Explanation of the names of persons and places in the departments of Biblical, political, and ecclesiastical history, mythology, heraldry, biography, bibliography, geography, and numismatics . a stag, or a mechanical tool, or the serpent for the serpentPython, &c. The bow and arrow, together or apart, thelyre, the tripod and the laurel, his usual symbols, are fre-quently put for him without any figure. He is most com-monly represented naked, as in figs. 1, 3, &c, but sometimesclothed in a female habit, as in fig. 2; his figure alwaysyouthful, and his head
. Universal historical dictionary, or, Explanation of the names of persons and places in the departments of Biblical, political, and ecclesiastical history, mythology, heraldry, biography, bibliography, geography, and numismatics . a stag, or a mechanical tool, or the serpent for the serpentPython, &c. The bow and arrow, together or apart, thelyre, the tripod and the laurel, his usual symbols, are fre-quently put for him without any figure. He is most com-monly represented naked, as in figs. 1, 3, &c, but sometimesclothed in a female habit, as in fig. 2; his figure alwaysyouthful, and his head sometimes adorned with flowinghair, as in fig. 4; sometimes with hair tastefully disposed,and crowned with a diadem, or with rays, or with laurel; Fig. on a medal of the Milesians he is represented as in fig. 5,having his head adorned with the rays of Sol, standing in atemple which was dedicated to him, by a burning altar, andholding a stag in his hand. His posture was also veryvarious, and most frequently standing, as in fig. 6; some-times sitting, sometimes in the act of stretching his bow toshoot, sometimes in the act of darting his arrow, and some-times in a chariot drawn by gryphons, &c as in fig. was scarcely a city of Greece which struck medafa2 B APO that had not some representation of Apollo, besides manycities in Italy, Sicily, &c. Apollo (Gcug.) the temple of Apollo on the promontory ofActium, which served as a beacon for mariners. Apollo (Biog.) a monk of Thebais, who remained 4-0 yearsin solitude. Sozom. 1. S. e. 1. APOLLOCRATES {Hist} •AnoWok-paTnc, the eldest son ofDionysius, the tyrant of Syracuse, to whom his father gavethe citadel when he took to flight. Pint, in Dion. APOLLODORUS (Hist.) AiroWocil
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