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temple, but he sholved little military capacity. He was surprised by the Romans under the command of Orobius (or Orbius), and only saved his See also:

LIFE

life by See also:

FLIGHT

flight. He died a little later, probably in 84 B.C. Apellicon's See also:

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief pursuit was the collection of rare and import-See also:

ant books. He See also:

PURCHASED

purchased from the See also:

FAMILY

family of See also:

NELEUS

Neleus of Skepsis in the See also:

TROAD, CERAMICS, PLATE

Troad See also:

MANUSCRIPTS

manuscripts of the See also:

WORKS

works of See also:

Aristotle and See also:

THEOPHRASTUS

Theophrastus (including their See also:

LIBRARIES

libraries), which had been given to Neleus by Theophrastus himself, whose See also:

PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)

pupil Neleus had been. They had been concealed in a cellar to prevent their falling into the hands of the book-See also:

COLLECTING

collecting princes of See also:

PERGAMUM, or PERGAMTS (mod. Bergama)

Pergamum, and were in a very dilapidated See also:

CONDITION (Lat. condicio, from condicere, to agree upon, arrange; not connected with conditio, from condere, conditum, to put together)

condition. Apellicon filled in the lacunae, and brought out a new, but faulty, edition. In 84 See also:

SULLA, LUCIUS CORNELIUS (138–78 B.C.)

Sulla removed Apellicon's library to See also:

Rome (See also:

STRABO (born c. 63 n.c.)

Strabo xiii. p. 609; See also:

Plutarch, Sulla, 26).

Here the See also:

MSS. were handed over to the grammarian Tyrannion, who took copies of them, on the basis of which the peripatetic philosopher Andronicus of See also:

Rhodes prepared an edition of Aristotle's works. Apellicon's library contained a remarkable old copy of the Iliad. He is said to have published a See also:

BIOGRAPHY (from the Gr. (3ios, life, and yp&4 , writing)

biography of Aristotle, in which the calumnies of other biographers were refuted.

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