There was another of the name in the reign of Trajan, who wrote a cooking book and manual of sauces.

No Brahmin could abominate your meal more than I do.  Hirtius and Apicius would have blushed for it.  Mark Antony, who roasted eight whole boars for supper, never massacred more at a meal than you have done.—­Cumberland, The Fashionable Lover, i. 1 (1780).

APOLLO, son of Jupiter and Latona, and model of masculine beauty.  He is the sun, in Homeric mythology, the embodiment of practical wisdom and foresight, of swift and far-reaching intelligence, and hence of poetry, music, etc.

The Apollo Belvidere, that is, the Apollo preserved in the Belvidere gallery of the Vatican, discovered in 1503 amid the ruins of An’tium, and purchased by pope Julius II.  It is supposed to be the work of Cal’amis, a Greek sculptor of the fifth century B.C.

The Apollo of Actium was a gigantic statue, which served for a beacon.

The Apollo of Rhodes, usually called the colossus, was a gigantic bronze statue, 150 feet high, made by Chares, a pupil of Lysippus, and set up B.C. 300.

Animals consecrated to Apollo, the cock, the crow, the grasshopper, the hawk, the raven, the swan, and the wolf.

APOLL’YON, king of the bottomless pit; introduced by Bnnyan in his Pilgrim’s Progress.  Apollyon encounters Christian, by whom, after a severe contest, he is foiled (1678).

APOSTLE or Patron Saint of—­

  ABYSSINIANS, St. Frumentius (died 360).  His day, October 27. 
  ALPS, Felix Neff (1798-1829). 
  ANTIOCH, St. Margaret (died 275).  Her day, July 20. 
  ARDENNES, St. Hubert (656-730). 
  ARMENIANS, Gregory of Armenia (256-331). 
  CAGLIARI (Sardinia), St. Efisio. 
  CORFU, St. Spiridion (fourth century).  His day, December 14. 
  ENGLISH, St. Augustin (died 607); St. George (died 290). 
  ETHIOPIA, St. Frumentius (died 360).  His day, October 27. 
  FRANCONIA, St. Kilian (died 689).  His day, July 8. 
  FREE TRADE, Richard Cobden (1804-1865). 
  FRENCH, St. Denis (died 272).  His day, October 9. 
  FRISIANS, St. Wilbrod (657-738). 
  GAULS, St. Irenae’us (130-200); St. Martin (316-397). 
  GENTILES, St. Paul (died 66).  His days, June 29, January 25. 
  GEORGIA, St. Nino. 
  GERMANY, St. Boniface (680-755).  His day, June 5. 
  HIGHLANDERS, St. Colomb (521-597).  His day, June 9. 
  HUNGARIANS, St. Anastasius (died 628).  His day, January 22. 
  INDIANS, Bartolome de Las Casas (1474-1566); Rev. John Eliot (1603-1690). 
  INDIES, St. Francis Xavier (1506-1552).  His day, December 3. 
  INFIDELITY, Voltaire (1694-1778). 
  IRISH, St. Patrick (372-493).  His day, March 17. 
  LIBERTY, Thomas Jefferson, third president of the U.S. (1743-1826). 
  LONDON, St. Paul; St. Michael.  Days, January 25, September 29. 
  NETHERLANDS, St. Armand (589-679). 
  NORTH, St. Ansgar (801-864); Bernard Gilpin (1517-1583).