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turning to her father’s houfe, did «7ratAi£jc-0«i rv 
lodge apart from the bridegroom. Some will have the 
apaulia to have been the fecond day of the marriage, viz. 
that whereon the chief ceremony was performed; thus 
called by way of contradiftinifticn from the ti rtf day, which 
was called 7,-ao«rA»a. On the day called uTra-iMa. (when¬ 
ever that was), the bride prefented her bridegroom with 
-a garment called a.'rrxvtorr.qia., 
A'PE,/ [ape, Icelandiih.] In zoology, that fpecies of 
the Simia tribe w hich approaches neared to the form of 
man. See Simia. 
“ An ape is an ape, a varlet’s a varlet, though he be 
cloathed in lilk or fcarlet.” Or, according to another pro- 
veib, “ The higher the ape goes, the more he (hews his 
tail.” Plus le fmge s'cleve, plus il decouvreJon cul pele, Fr. 
That is, dignities ferve but to make perlons ridiculous, 
who are not w orthy of them, or don’t know how to behave 
themfelves in them. 
Sea- Ape, a name given by Steller to a marine animal 
which he faw on the coaft of America, but which is nei¬ 
ther known nor chilled in any lyftem of natural hiftory by 
tins appellation. 
To Ape, v. a. To imitate or mimic, as an ape imitates 
or mimics human actions: 
Aping the foreigners in every drefs, 
Which, bought at greater colt, becomes us lefs. Dryden. 
APE'AK, adv. [probably from a pique. ] In a pofture 
to pierce; formed with a point. It is mollly ufed as a fea- 
term: the anchor is laid to be apeak when in a pofture pre- 
fcntly to pierce the ground. 
" APEI'BA,/ in botany. See Aubletia. 
APEL'L A, f. among the old phyficians, w'as a name gi¬ 
ven to thofe whofe prepuce is either wanting or Ihrunk, lo 
as no longer to cover the glans. But, according to Salma- 
fius and others, it was the proper name of a Jew. 
APEL'LES, one of the molt celebrated painters of an¬ 
tiquity. He was born in the ille of Cos, and flouriflied in 
the time of Alexander the Great, with whom he was in 
high favour. He executed a picture of this prince, hold- 
in a thunderbolt in his hand: a piece, finifhed with fo 
much lkill and dexterity, that it ufed to be faid there were 
two Alexanders : one invincible, the fon of Philip ; the 
other inimitable, the production of Apelles. Alexander 
gave him a remarkable proof of his regard: for, when he 
employed Apelles to draw Campafpe, one of his miftreffes, 
having found that he had conceived an affection for her, 
he religned her to him; and it was from her that Apelles 
is faid to have drawn his Venus Anadyomene. What is 
called grace, was the characteriltic of this artift. His pen¬ 
cil was fo famous for drawing fine lines, that Protogenes 
difeovered by a fingle line that Apelles had been at his 
houfe. Protogenes lived at Rhodes : Apelles failed thi¬ 
ther, and went to his houfe with great eagernefs, to fee 
the works of an artift who was known to him only by name. 
Protogenes was from home ; but an old woman was left 
watching a large piece of canvas, fitted in a frame for 
painting. She told Apelles that Protogenes was gone out; 
and afked his name, that fhe might inform her mailer who 
had inquired for him. “ Tell him (fays Apelles) he was 
inquired for by this perfon;” at the fame time, taking up a 
pencil, lie drew on the canvafs a line of great delicacy. 
When Protogenes returned, the old woman acquainted 
him with what had happened. That artift, upon contem¬ 
plating the fine ftroke of the line, immediately pronoun¬ 
ced that Apelles had been there; for fo finifhed a ftroke 
could be produced by no other perfon. Protogenes, how¬ 
ever, himfelf drew a finer line of another colour; and, as 
he was going away, ordered the old woman to fhew that 
line to Apelles if he came again; and to fay, “ This is the 
perfon for Whom youare enquiring.” Apelles returned, and 
faw the line: he would not for fhame be overcome; and 
therefore, in a colour different from either of the former, 
he drew fome lines fo exquilitely delicate, that it was ut¬ 
terly impolfible for finer ftrokes to be nude. Protogenes 
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now confcfted the fuperiority of Apelles, flew to the har¬ 
bour in fearch of him, and refolved to leave the canvas 
with the lines upon it for the admiration of future artifts. 
Apelles afterwards ftiewed great liberality of mind to¬ 
wards Protogenes. With ideas enlarged by education and 
literature, he was incapable of harbouring the little jea- 
loufies of competitors ; on fhe contrary, he was the firft 
who made the work's of Protogenes to be valued as they 
deferved among the Rhodians. There are two ftories re¬ 
lated of Apelles, which (hew him to be at once an artift 
of modefty in amending even trifling improprieties, and 
yet of felf-confidence fufficient to make him know the per¬ 
fection and value of his own paintings. It was cuftomary 
with Apelles to expole to public view the works which he 
had finifhed, and to hide himfelf behind the picture, to 
hear the remarks palled on it by perfons who came to view 
it. He once heard himfelf blamed by a (hoemakec for a 
fault in the flippers of fome picture: he corrected the 
fault which the man had noticed : but on the day follow¬ 
ing the Ihoemaker began to animadvert on the leg; upon 
which Apelles with fome anger looked from behind the 
canvas, and bade him keep to his own province, “ Ne 
futor ultra crepidam.” It is well known, that Alexander 
forbade anv one belides Apelles to paint his portrait. We 
are not, however, to conclude from this, that Alexander 
was a more Ikilful judge of painting than he was of poe¬ 
try. Like Auguftus, he cherilhed the fine arts more from 
vanity than talle. A remarkable proof is given of this 
prince’s inability to difeern merit, and of the painter’s 
freedom in exprefllng the mortification he felt, when a 
work of his was not fufficiently commended. “ Alexan¬ 
der (fays Hilian, lib. ii. c. 3. Var. Hift.) having viewed the 
picture of himfelf which was at Ephefus, did not praife 
it as it deferved ; but, when a hone was brought in, and 
neighed at feeing the figure of a horfe in the 'picture, as 
though it had been a real horfe, “ O king,” laid Apelles, 
“ this horfe feems to be by far a better judge of painting 
than you.” ' It happened more than once that the horfes 
drawn by him w^ere miftaken for real ones, by living hor¬ 
fes which faw and neighed at the pictures. The works of 
Apelles u'ere all admired ; but the molt celebrated were 
the picture of Alexander above-mentioned, and that of 
Venus emerging from the fea, which was efteemed the molt 
exquifite figure the pencil could create. 
APELLI'TZE, heretics in the primitive church, fo call¬ 
ed from their head Apelles, who taught that Chrift's bo¬ 
dy was only an elementary compofition, which he again left- 
in the world at his afcenlion into heaven; that there is a 
good and bad principle; that the prophets contradicted 
each other ; and that there is no refurreCtion of the dead. 
APE'NE,/ in antiquity, a chariot whereon the images 
of the gods were carried in proceflionon certain days, at¬ 
tended with a folemn pomp, longs, hymns, dancing, &c. 
It was very rich, made fometimes of ivory, or even of fil- 
Ver, and varioufly decorated. 
APENIN'NUS, or Ap'penines, a ridge of mountains, 
running through the middle of Italy, from north-weft to 
the fouth-weft, for 700 miles, in the form of a c ref cent, 
beginning at the Alps in Liguria, or the Kivierra di Genoa; 
and terminating at the ftrait of Mefl’ana, or at Reggio, and 
the promontory Leucopetra; and feparating, as by a back 
or ridge, the Adriatic from the Tufcan fea. 
AP'ENRADE, a town of Denmark, in the duchy of 
Selfwick, feated at the bottom of a gulph in the Baltic 
fea, between Flenlbourg and Hadafchleben. It is twenty- 
five miles north from Selfwick. Lat. 54.4. N, Ion. 9. 28.E. 
AP'ENZEL, a town of Switzerland, in the canton of 
the fame name, feated on the river Chuz, lat. 47. 31. N. 
Ion. 9. 1. E. The canton itfelf was received into the Hel¬ 
vetic league in 1513. Its greateft length is about thirty 
miles, and its breadth about twenty. It yields good paf- 
turage, and confequently is not deftitute of cattle, milk, 
butter, or cheefe. Conliderable quantities alfo of wheat, rye, 
barley, oats, beans, peafe, flax, and wine, are produced 
in it; fiefide$ a good deal of fruit, wood., and turf; with 
mineral 
