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Apion

1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

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Greek grammarian and commentator on Homer, born at Oasis in Libya, flourished in the first half of the 1st century A.D. He studied at Alexandria, and headed a deputation sent to Caligula (in 38) by the Alexandrians to complain of the Jews: his charges were answered by Josephus in his Contra Apionem. He settled at Rome - it is uncertain when - and taught rhetoric till the reign of Claudius. Apion was a man of great industry and learning, but extremely vain. He wrote several works, which are lost. The well-known story of Androclus and the lion, preserved in Aulus Gellius, is from his Alyu7rTCaKa; fragments of his FX rcrac `Ow pucai are printed in the Etymologicum Gudianum, ed. Sturz, 1818.

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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Apion'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​a/apion.html. 1910.
 
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