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APINA

Volume 2 · 40 words · 1810 Edition

or Apine, a town of Apulia, built by Diomedes, as was also Trice (Pliny). Apinae and Trices is a proverbial saying for things trifling and of no value (Martial); and Apinaria was the appellation for triflers or buffoons, (Trebellius Pollio).