APOLLONIUS, the author of the Argonautics, was born at Alexandria in Egypt: he taught rhetoric at Rhodes, and hence was called Rhodiensis. He flourished about the 137th Olympiad, and was keeper of the Alexandrian library. Longinus, in his treatise Of the Sublime, commends this poet. The ancient Scholia upon his Argonautics, still extant, are extremely useful, and full of learning.