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APATURIA (' \warovpia), an ancient Greek festival held annually by all the Ionian towns except Ephesus and Colophon (Herodotus i. 147). At Athens it took place in the month of Pyanepsion (October to November), and lasted three days, on which occasion the vario ...

APURIMAC, a river of central Peru, rising in the Laguna de Villafra in the western Cordilleras, 7 m. from Caylloma, a village in the department of Arequipa, and less than 100 m. from the Pacific coast. It flows first north-easterly, then north-westerly past Cu

ASTURIAS, an ancient province and principality of northern Spain, bounded on the N. by the Bay of Biscay, E. by Old Castile, S. by Leon and W. by Galicia. Pop. (1900) 627,069; area, 4205 sq. m. By the division of Spain in 1833, the province took the name of Ov

... also from several Cornish mines, occurs as crystallized stalactitic masses. In APATURIA— APELLES addition to these crystallized varieties, there are massive varieties, fibrous, concretionary, stalactitic, or earthy in form, which are included together under t ...

... le of Artemis Kopv6a\la ( = Kovporptxjjos) and there consecrated to her; at the Apaturia, on the day called Kovpt&Tis, boys cut off and dedicated their hair to her. Girls as well as boys were under her protection. Her function as a goddess of marriage is less ...

... re solemnly received into the genos and phratria of their adoptive parents (see APATURIA). See Preller- Robert, Griechische Mythologie, i. (1894); G. F. Schomann, Griechische Alterthumer (4th ed. by J. H. Lipsius, 18971902); P. Stengel, Die griechischen Kultus ...