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APOLLOS ('AroXXwt; contracted from Apollonius), an Alexandrine Jew who after Paul's first visit to Corinth worked there in a similar way (i Cor. iii. 6). He was with Paul at a later date in Ephesus (i Cor. xvi. n). In i Cor. i. 10-12 we read of four parties in ...

APOLLONIUS, surnamed 6 6wr<coXos (" the Surly or Crabbed"), a celebrated grammarian of Alexandria, who lived in the reigns of Hadrian and Antoninus Pius. He spent the greater part of his life in his native city, where he died; he is also said to have visited R

APOLLYON, the " foul fiend " who assaulted Christian on his pilgrimage through the Valley of Humiliation in John Bunyan's great allegory. The name (Gr. 'AToXXwov), which means " destroyer " (diroXXwii', to destroy), is taken from Rev. ix. n, where it represent

APOLLODORUS, an Athenian painter, who flourished at the end of the 5th century B.C. He is said to have introduced great improvements in perspective and chiaroscuro. What these were it is impossible to say: perspective cannot have been in his day at an advanced