. Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ... with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps. Prof. Max Miiller, a groupof fishes belonging to the sub-order phy-sostomata. It is so called because theventral fins are wanting. It containsthree families, the tnurmnidse, or eels, thegymnotidse, and the symbranchidx. APODAL FISHES, the name appliedto such malacopterous fishes as wantventral fins. They constitute a smallnatural family, of which the common eelis an example. APOGEE, that point in the orbit ofthe moon or a planet where it is at its APOLLINARIS WATER 207 A
. Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ... with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps. Prof. Max Miiller, a groupof fishes belonging to the sub-order phy-sostomata. It is so called because theventral fins are wanting. It containsthree families, the tnurmnidse, or eels, thegymnotidse, and the symbranchidx. APODAL FISHES, the name appliedto such malacopterous fishes as wantventral fins. They constitute a smallnatural family, of which the common eelis an example. APOGEE, that point in the orbit ofthe moon or a planet where it is at its APOLLINARIS WATER 207 APONEUROSIS greatest distance from the earth; prop-erly this particular part of the moonsorbit. APOLLINABIS WATER, a naturalaerated water, belonging to the class ofacidulated soda waters, and derived fromthe Apollinarisbrunnen, a spring in thevalley of the _Ahr, near the Rhine, inRhenish Prussia. APOLLO, son of Zeus (Jupiter) andLeto (Latona), who being persecuted bythe jealousy of Hera (Juno), after tedi-ous wanderings and nine days labor wasdelivered to him and his twin sister,Artemis (Diana), on the island of XHE APOLLO BELVEDERE IN THE VATICAN,ROME Skilled in the use of the bow, he slew theserpent Python on the fifth day afterhis birth; afterward, with his sisterArtemis, he killed the children of aided Zeus in the war with the Titansand the giants. He destroyed the Cy-elopedes, because they forged the thun-derbolts with which Zeus killed his sonand favorite, Asklepios (^sculapius).According to some traditions he inventedthe lyre, though this is generally as-cribed to Hermes (Mercury). Apollowas originally the sun-god; and thoughin Homer he appears distinct from Helios(the sun), yet his real nature is hintedat even here by the epithet Phoebus, thatis, the radiant or beaming. In later timesthe view was almost universal that Apol- lo and Helios were identical. From be-ing the god of light and purity in a phys-ical sense he gradually became the godof moral and s
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