famous architect under Trajan and Hadrian, was born at Damascus. He had the direction of the bridge of stone which Trajan ordered to be built over the Danube in the year 104, which was esteemed the most magnificent of all the works of that emperor. Hadrian, one day as Trajan was discovering with this architect upon the buildings he had raised at Rome, would needs give his judgment, and showed he understood nothing of the matter. Apollodorus turned upon him bluntly, and said to him, go paint gourds, for you are very ignorant of the subject we are talking upon. Hadrian at this time boasted of his painting gourds well. The insult cost Apollodorus his life.

celebrated painter of Athens, about 408 years before the birth of Christ, was the first who invented the art of mingling colours, and of expressing the lights and shades. He was admired also for his judicious choice of subjects, and for beauty and strength of colouring surpassed all the masters that went before him. He excelled likewise in statuary.

Apollodorus the Athenian, a famous grammarian, the son of Asclepiades and disciple of Aristarchus. He wrote many works not now extant; but his most famous production was his Bibliotheca, concerning the origin of the gods. This work consisted of 24 books, but only three are now in being. Several other pieces of his are to be found in Fabricius's Bibliotheca Graeca. There were various other persons of this name. Scipio Teitii, a Neapolitan, has written a treatise of the Apollodorus, which was printed at Rome in 1555; and Dr Thomas Gale published a work of the same kind in 1675.