APOLLONIS, ii-fi.91-/e-72/S, a city in Lydia. APOLLONI US, d-ifol-1.3'..ni-us. T. Stoic philo • sopher of Chalcis, sent for by Antoninus Pius to instruct his adopted son M. Antoninus. 2. A geometrician of Perga in Pamphylia, 240 0.0., wrote geometrical treatises, some of which are extant. 3. A poet of Naucretis, in Egypt, generally called Apollonius of Rhodes, from having lived there : was pupil of Callimachus and Panmtius, and succeeded Erastosthenes as librarian of the Alexandrian Museum, under Ptolemy III., Euergetes : only his poem on the Argonauts is eitant: 4. Moto, ,no/'-o, a Greek orator, native of Alabanda, in Carla. taught rhetoric at Rhodes and Rome, to J. Cmsar and Cicero among others. 5. A Greek historian, temp. Augustus : wrote on Zeno and his fol lowers. 6. A Stoic philosopher, who attended Cato of Utica in his last moments. 7. An offi cer set over Egypt by Alexander. 8. A wres
tler. 9. A physician of Pergamus, wrote on agriculture. zo. A grammarian of Alexandria. x x. A writer tem,. Antoninus Pius. zz. THYANEUS, MY-a-Meta, born about 4 B.C., a Pythagorean philosopher, and famous magi cian, who acquired much credit from exclaiming at Ephesus, " Strike the tyrant, strike him : the blow is given, he is wounded and fallen !" at the very moment the emperor Domitian had been stabbed at Rome. He was courted by kings and princes, and commanded unusual attention. 13. A sophist of Alexandria, in the beginning of the ist century A.D., wrote a lexi con to Homer : he was pupil of Didymus. 04. A son of Sotades at the court of Ptolemy Phi ladelphus. 15. SVRUS, syr'-us, a Platonic philosopher. 16. H EROPHILUS, hl-reol4M-81-us, wrote concerning ointments.