APOSTOLIUS, MICHAEL (died c. 1480, a Greek the ologian and rhetorician of the 15th century. When, in 14J3, the Turks conquered Constantinople, his native city, he fled to Italy, and there obtained the protection of Cardinal Bessarion. He after wards retired to Crete, where he earned a scanty living by teaching and by copying manuscripts. Many of his copies are still to be found in the libraries of Europe. One of them, the 1 cones of Philostratus at Bologna, bears the inscription : "The king of the poor of this world has written this book for his living." Of his numerous works a few have been printed: IIapocMtac (Basel, 1538) , now exceedingly rare ; a collection of proverbs in Greek, of which a fuller edition appeared at Leyden, "Curante Heinsio," in 1619; "Oratio Panegyrica ad Fredericum III." in Freher's Scriptores Rerum Gertnanicarum, vol. ii. (Frankfort, 1624) ; Georgii Gemisthi Plethonis et Mich. Apostolii, Orationes funebres duae in quibus de Immortalitate Animae exponitur (Leipzig, 1793) ; and a work against the Latin church and the council of Florence in Le Moine's Varia Sacra.