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Encyclopedia Britannica



APION

This article appears in Volume V02, Page 168 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: ANC-APO
APION , Greek grammarian and commentator on
Homer
 , born at
Oasis
  in
Libya
 , flourished in the first half of the tst 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 A pionem. He settled at Romeit is uncertain whenand 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 Atyvzrrewca; fragments of his FXCe'oavat `Oopuual are printed in the Etynmlogicum Gudianum, ed. Sturz, 1818.


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