APOTEICHISMUS, in the ancient military art, a kind of line of circumvallation drawn round a place in order to besiege it. This was also called periteichismus. The first thing the ancients went about, when they designed to lay close siege to a place, was the apoteichismus; which sometimes consisted of a double wall or rampart, raised of earth; the innermost to prevent sudden sallies from the town, the outermost to keep off foreign enemies from coming to the relief of the be-
fieged. This answered to what are called lines of con- Apotheary
travallation and circumvallation among the moderns. Apotheosis.