Apis, sacred Egyptian bull, vi. 11, 119 _n._, viii. 34 _sqq._, ix. 217; mourning for the death of, v. 225; held to be an image of the soul of Osiris, vi. 130; drowned in a holy spring, viii. 36; not suffered to outlive a certain term of years, viii. 173
Apodtho, the ancestor of all men, iii. 79
Apollo at Delos, i. 32, 34 _sq._, ii. 135; prophetess of, inspired by laurel, i. 384, iv. 80; image of, in sacred cave at Hylae, i. 386; at Patara, ii. 135; purification of, iii. 223 _n._ 1; servitude of, iv. 70 _n._ 1, 78; and the laurel, iv. 78 _sqq._; at Thebes, iv. 79; purged of the dragon’s blood in the Vale of Tempe, iv. 81; dedication of a tithe-offering to, iv. 187 _n._ 5; the friend of Cinyras, v. 54; music in the worship of, v. 54 _sq._; his musical contest with Marsyas, v. 55, 288; reputed father of Augustus, v. 81; purified at Tempe, vi. 240; temple of, at the Lover’s Leap, ix. 254; temple of, at Cumae, x. 99; identified with the Celtic Grannus, x. 112
Apollo and Artemis, birthdays of, i. 32; the birth of, ii. 58; their priesthood at Ephesus, vi. 243 _sq._; cake with twelve knobs offered to, ix. 351 _n._ 3
—— at Delphi, hair offered by boys at puberty to, i. 28; first-fruits offered to, i. 32; grave of, at Delphi, i. 34, 35, iv. 4; seems to have usurped the place of an older god or hero at Delphi and Thebes, ii. 88; and the Dragon at Delphi, iv. 78, 79, 80 _sq._, vi. 240; sacrifices of Croesus to, v. 180 _n._ 1
—— Diradiotes, inspired priestess at temple of, i. 381
—— the Mouse, his temple in the Troad, viii. 283
Apollonia, festival at Delos, i. 32 _n._ 2
Apollonius of Tyana, how he rid Antioch of scorpions, viii. 280 _sq._; how he rid Constantinople of flies, viii. 281
Apologies offered to trees for cutting them down, ii. 18 _sq._, 30, 36 _sq._; for trespass on sacred groves, ii. 328; offered by savages to the animals they kill, viii. 215, 217, 218, 221, 222 _sqq._, 235 _sqq._, 243
Apotheosis by being burnt alive, v. 179 _sq._
Apoyaos, tribe in Luzon, their human sacrifices, vii. 241
Appam, a town on the Gold Coast, family descended from a fish at, iv. 129
Appian, on the costume of a priest of Isis, vi. 85 _n._ 3
Apple, offered instead of ram or ox to Hercules, viii. 95 _n._ 2; divination by a sliced, at Hallowe’en, x. 238; and candle, biting at, x. 241, 242, 243, 245