The popular and critical Bible encyclopædia and Scriptural dictionary, fully defining and explaining all religious terms, including biographical, geographical, historical, archaeological and doctrinal themes . goodcourage! Then the term applied to the soldering—tob! Arabic tayyib! that is, good!—is atonce a call to cease from further hammering anda declaration that the work is satisfactory. (G. , Hastings Bib. Diet.) APE (ap), (Heb. -~pp, kofih, whence the Latin-ized name Cephus). In the Hebrew and Semitic cognate tongues,and in the classical languages, these names, undervarious modifi
The popular and critical Bible encyclopædia and Scriptural dictionary, fully defining and explaining all religious terms, including biographical, geographical, historical, archaeological and doctrinal themes . goodcourage! Then the term applied to the soldering—tob! Arabic tayyib! that is, good!—is atonce a call to cease from further hammering anda declaration that the work is satisfactory. (G. , Hastings Bib. Diet.) APE (ap), (Heb. -~pp, kofih, whence the Latin-ized name Cephus). In the Hebrew and Semitic cognate tongues,and in the classical languages, these names, undervarious modifications, designate the Simiadas, in-cluding, no doubt, species of Cercopithecus, Mac-acus and Cynocephalus, os Guenons, apes andbaboons; that is, all the animals of the quadru-manous order known to the Hebrews, Arabs,Egyptians and the classical writers. Accordingly,we find Pliny and Solinus speaking of EthiopianCephi exhibited at Rome, and in the upper partof the celebrated Praenestine mosaic representingthe inundation of the Nile, figures of Simiadaeoccur in the region which indicates Nubia; amongothers, one in a tree with the name Ke-i-pen be-side it, which may be taken for a Cercopithecus KHJHEN. Monkey from the Praenestine Mosaic. of the Guenon group. But in the triumphal proces-sion of Thothmes III at Thebes, nations from theinterior of Africa, probably from Nubia, bear curi-osities and tribute, among which the Camelopard-alis or Giraffe and six quadrumana may be ob-served. The smallest and most effaced animals maybe apes, but the others, and in particular the threefigured and colored from careful drawings, inPlate xxi of Rosellinis work, are undoubtedlyMacaci or Cynocephali, that is, species of thegenus baboon, or baboon-like apes. Naturalistsand commentators, not deterred by the intermin-able list of errors which the practice has occa-sioned, are often unnecessarily anxious to assignthe names of animals noticed in Scripture and inthe ancient classics to species char
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