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Apt (äpt). A town in the department of Vaucluse, France, situated on the Calavon 28 miles east by south of Avignon: the ancient Apta Julia (a city of the Vulgientes). It contains important Roman antiquities and a cathedral. Population (1891), commune, 5,725. Apuan (ap'u-an) Alps. A chain of the northern A pennines, situated near Carrara, Italy. It is separated from the main range of the A pennines by the upper valleys of the Serchio and Magra. Apuleius, or Appuleius (ap-u-lē'us), Lucius. Born at Medaura, Numidia, about 125 A. D. A Roman Platonic philosopher and rhetorician, author of a famous romance, the "Metamorphoses, or The Golden A ." He also wrote an "Apology," philosophical works, etc. See Golden A , The . Apulia (a-pu'li-a), It. Puglia (pölyä). In ancient geography, a region in Italy between the A pennines and the Adriatic, south of the Frentani and east of Samnium, conquered by Rome in the 4th century B. C. Later it included the Me apian Peninsula. It was made a duchy under the Normans in the middle of the 11th century. The ancient inhabitants were the Dauni, Peucetii, and Salentini or Me a pians. Apulia (ä-pö'le-ä). A compart i men to of the modern kingdom of Italy, comprising the provinces of Foggia, Bari, and Lecce. It is one of the least prosperous districts of Italy. Area, 7,376 square miles. Population (1891), 1,778,323. Apure (a-po-ra). Ariver in western Venezuela, one of the principal tributaries of the Orinoco, which it joins in lat. 7° 35' N., long. 66° 50′ W. Its length is about 600 miles, and it is navigable in its lower part. Apurimac (ä-pö-re-mäk'). [Quichua apu , chief, and rimac , oracle.] A department in the interior of southern Peru. Population, about 140,000. Apurimac. The southernmost head stream of the Ucayale, and hence of the Amazon, in Peru, rising about 15° 10' S., and flowing north. From the confluence of the Mantaro (12° S.) it is called the Ené to its junction with the Perené; thence to the Ucayale it is known as the Tambó. The entire length to the Ucayale is about 500 miles. Apus (a'pus). [NL., from Gr. ἄπους , without feet.] One of the southern constellations formed in the 16th century, probably by Petrus The odor i; the Bird of Paradise. It is situated south of the Triangulum Australe, and its brightest star is of the fourth magnitude. Aquæ Calidæ (a'kwe kal'i-dē). [L., 'hot springs.'] In ancient geography: ( a ) The mod The Roman name of Aix, France. Scene of the great victory of Marius over the Teutones, Ambrones, and some other Germanic tribes, B. C. 102. Aquæ Solis (a'kwe sõ'lis). [L., 'springs or baths of the sun.'] The Roman name of Bath, England. A city remarkable for its splendid edifices, its temples, its buildings for public amusement, and still more so for its medicinal baths. For this latter reason it was called Aquæ Solis, the Waters of the Sun, and for the same cause its representative in modern times has received the name of Bath. Remains of the Roman bathing-houses have been discovered in the course of modern excavations. Among its temples was a magnificent one dedicated to Minerva, who is supposed to have been the patron godde of the place.