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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 168 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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Greek grammarian and commentator on See also:Homer, See also:born at See also:Oasis in See also:Libya, flourished in the first See also:half of the tst See also:century A.D. He studied at See also:Alexandria, and headed a deputation sent to Caligula (in 38) by the Alexandrians to complain of the See also:Jews: his charges were answered by See also:Josephus in his Contra A pionem. He settled at Rome—it is uncertain when—and taught See also:rhetoric till the reign of See also:Claudius. Apion was a See also:man of See also:great See also:industry and learning, but extremely vain. He 'wrote several See also:works, which are lost. The well-known See also:story of See also:Androclus and the See also:lion, preserved in Aulus See also:Gellius, is from his Atyvzrrewca; fragments of his FXCe'oavat `Oµopuual are printed in the Etynmlogicum Gudianum, ed. Sturz, 1818.

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