(anc. geog.) two adjoining islands on the west side of the island of Cyprus; the one called Pale-Paphos, (Strabo, Ptolemy, Pliny); the other Nea Paphos; and when mentioned without an adjunct, this latter is always understood. Both dedicated to Venus, and left undistinguished by the poets, (Virgil, Horace). Hence Venus is surmamed Paphia; Paphites the people, (Coins, Stephanus). It was restored by Augustus, after a shock of an earthquake, and called Augusta, (Dio).

APIAS, bishop of Hieropolis, a city of Phrygia, was the disciple of St John the Evangelist, and the companion of Polycarp, as St Jerome observes, and not of John the Ancient, as some other authors have maintained. He composed a work in five books, intitled Exploits of the Discourses of our Lord, of which there are only some fragments now remaining. He it was who introduced the opinion of the Millenarians.