Apion

A specimen was hurried off to R. T. Thompson, the weevil specialist at the Natural History Museum, where it was identified as Apion genistae.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

A specimen was hurried off to R. T. Thompson, the weevil specialist at the Natural History Museum, where it was identified as Apion genistae.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

Josephus has contradictory positions: in Antiquities (IV, 278) he relates to the monetary fine in the Exodus text, while in Against Apion (II, 202) he considers women who abort as murderers.

Abortion. leBeit Yoreh 2009

Apion son of Posidonius in his book against the Jews, and in the fourth book of his history, where he says that during the reign of Inachus over Argos the Jews revolted from Amasis king of the Egyptians, and that Moses led them.

ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001

At his death, he left Cyrene separately to his son Apion, who willed it to Rome in 96, though it was not actually annexed until 75.

g. Ptolemaic Egypt to the Roman Conquest 2001

The bean pod weevil (Apion godmani) is a serious problem in Central America.

Chapter 10 1981

Charged they were that they worshipped an ass's head; which impious folly -- first fastened on the Jews by Tacitus, Hist., lib.v. cap. 1, in these words, "Effigiem animalis, quo monstrante errorem sitimque depulerant, penetrali sacravere" (having before set out a feigned direction received by a company of asses), which he had borrowed from Apion, a railing Egyptian of Alexandria [224] -- was so ingrafted in their minds that no defensative could be allowed.

The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

Apion, a most ridiculous fiction about a young Greek captive being delivered by Antiochus, when he impiously spoiled the temple, after having been fed there on a sumptuous diet for the space of a year, that he might make the fatter a victim.

A Dissertation on Divine Justice 1616-1683 1967

Apion bears witness that they laboured under the infamy of that horrible crime, — namely, of sacrificing human victims, among those who were unacquainted with the Jewish polity; where he also recites, from the same

A Dissertation on Divine Justice 1616-1683 1967

Cæsar that they were used among the Britons and Romans by the Druids — A fiction of Apion concerning the worship in the temple of Jerusalem — The names of some persons sacrificed — The use of human sacrifices among the

A Dissertation on Divine Justice 1616-1683 1967