Apuleius, Lucius

B. at Madaura, Africa, and lived in the 2d century. He was educated at Carthage and Athens, and imbibed the Platonic philosophy. His most celebrated work is that entitled "Metamorphoses; or, the Golden A ," which has been translated into almost all European languages of modern date. This book purports to be a satire on the profe ors and principles of priestcraft and magic. By some it is held to have been designed as a pagan diatribe against Christianity. Be this as it may, we must admit that the story of Psyche contained in it po e es a singular charm. Apulia, ( Anc . Geog .) was a part of Sapygia , (so called from Sapyx, son of Dædal us,) including the modern S.E. provinces of Capitan at a, Terra di Bari, Ferra d'Otranto, . In the most ancient times, three distinct nations dwelt here the Me a pians, or Sallentines, the Peucetians, and the Dauni, or Apulians. The Peucetians were in the southern part, as far as the Aufidus; the Dauni in the northern, as far as mount Garganus. According to the tradition which conducts the wandering heroes of the Trojan war to Italy, Diomed settled in A. , was supported by Daunus in a war with the Me a pians, whom he subdued, and was afterwards treacherously killed by his ally, who desired to monopolize the fruits of the victory. Roman history mentions Arpi, Luceria, and Canusium as important cities. Aufidus, a river of Apulia, has been celebrated by Horace, who was born at Venusia, in this territory. The second Punic war was carried on for years in Apulia. Cannæ, famous for the defeat of the Romans, is in this region. Puglia , the modern name, is only a melancholy relic of the ancient splendor which poets and historians have celebrated. It now supports more sheep than men, and has no political meaning, being merely the name of a geographical district. Apulia, in New York, a post-office of Onondaga co., 124 m. W. of Albany. Apu're, a river of S. America, in Venezuela. It rises in the Andes of New Granada, and after an E. course of about 500 m., receiving numerous tributaries, falls into the Orinoco in Lat. 7° 40′ N., and Lon. 66° 45' W. On its banks are the towns of San Fernando, and Nutrias. Apurimac, a river of S. America, in Lat. 15° 38′ S, Lon. 76° 25′ W., rises in the savannah of Condo rom a. and flowing N., joins the Ucayale one of the chief affluents of the Amazons. A'pus. n. ( Zool .) A gen. of small crustaceous animals, ord. Phyllopod a . They inhabit ditches, lakes, and standing waters, generally in innumerable quantities. They swim well on their back, and when they burrow in the sand at the bottom of the streams, they raise their talls in the water. Their food principally consists of tadpoles When first hatched they have only one eye, four oar like legs, with whorls of hair, the second pair being the largest; the body has then no tail, and the shell only covers the front half of the body; the other organs are gradually developed during succeeding moultings. These creatures are the common food of the Wagtails. Apyretic, a . [Gr. a, priv., and pyretos , fever.] ( Med . ) Without fever.