APINA, eti-i-na, and APIN/E, 0'4-thY, a city of Apulia, destroyed, with the neighbour ing Trica, by Diomedes ; whence the proverb AiSina et Trica for trifles.
Ammo., a-fil'41-a, and APIOL/E, a-Ar-d7-.T, a town of Italy, taken by Tarquinius Superbus.
APION, 4,6"4-on. 1. Ptolemy (13), descendant of Ptolemy Lagus. 2. See APIANUS.
Avis, r. An ancient king of Sicyon or of Argos, son of Phoroneus, or of Apollo, and Laodice, was a native of Naupacturd, and descended from Inkhus. His name was given to Peloponnesus, Apia. Some have connected him with 2, by supposing that he went to Egypt with a Greek colony, and was deified. 2. A god of the Egyptians, worshipped under the form of an ox. Some suppose that Isis and Osiris are the deities worshipped under this name, because during their reign they taught the Egyptians agriculture, and the soul of Osiris was believed to have entered the ox, the animal found so serviceable to him. The particular ox chosen as the god was dis tinguished by several marks—the body was black, with a square white spot on the forehead ; he had the figure of an eagle on the back, a white spot like a crescent on hts right side, the hairs of the tail double, and a knot under the tongue like a beetle. The festival lasted seven days, and the ox was led in solemn pro cession, every one being anxious to come near him. If he lived to the time allowed by their sacred books, he was drowned in the Nile, and his body, after being embalmed, was buried solemnly in Memphis ; there was then general mourning, as if Osiris was just dead, the priests shaving their heads. This lasted
till another ox was found with the marks, when there were great rejoicings, and the new Apis was left forty days in the city of the Nile before he was carried to Memphis. There was also an ox at Heliopolis, which is supposed to have been sacred to Isis alone. Cambyses, who invaded Egypt during the festival, sum moned the priests and their god before him, wounded the ox on the thigh, and ordered the priests to be chastised. Apis had two temples. If he ate from the hand, it was considered lucky; if he refused, it was unlucky : from this Germanicus, when he visited Egypt, drew the omens of his approaching death. When the oracle of Apis was consulted, incense was burnt on an altar, and a piece of money placed on it ; after this the person consulting applied his ear to the mouth of the god, and then im mediately stopped it and left the temple, and the first sounds that were heard were taken as the god's answer. 3. A town of Egypt, on Lake Mareotis. 4. A son of Jason, born in Arcadia, was killed by dEtolus's horses. APISAON, 4,6 x. Son of Hippasus, killed at the head of the Pmonians, by Lyco medes, in the Trojan war. 2. Another ally of Priam.