APIS, in Pagan mythology, one of the Egyptian
gods, worshipped in the form of a living bull. My-
thologists say, that Apis was a king of the Argives,
who, leaving his dominions to his brother, went into
Egypt, where he was known under the name of Osiris:
that he married Isis; and having civilized the Egi-
ptians, and taught them the manner of planting the
vine, they revered him after his death as a god, under
the figure of a bull. See the article EGYPT.