Apollyon (אָבָדְדָן, destruction; אָבָדְדָן in Rev. ix. 11, where it is rendered by the Greek Ἀπολλόδωρ, destroyer.) The former is the Hebrew name, and the latter the Greek, for the angel of death, or the angel of the abyss or 'bottomless pit.' In the Bible, and in every Rabbinical instance, the word אָבָדְדָן (abaddon) means destruction (Job xxxi. 12), or the place of destruc-

tion, i.e. the subterranean world, Haides, the region of the dead (Job xxvi. 6; xxviii. 22; Prov. xv. 11.) It is in fact the second of the seven names which the Rabbins apply to that region; and they deduce it particularly from Psalm lxxxviii. 11, "Shall thy loving kindness be declared in the grave, or thy faithfulness in (abaddon) destruction?"

Abadeh, a Persian town in Fars, 115 miles north of Shiraz, formerly a place of importance but now decayed, though still with a population of about 5000. It is famous for its gardens, the fruits of which are sent to Shiraz.

Abadie, a title which the Carthaginians gave to gods of the first order. In the Roman mythology, it is the name of a stone which Saturn swallowed, by the contrivance of his wife Ops, believing it to be his new-born son Jupiter; hence it became the object of religious worship.

Abe, Ἄβας, in Ancient Geography, a town of Phœcia near the frontiers of the Opuntians Locrans, famous for an ancient oracle of Apollo, and the treasures of its temple, which was plundered and burnt by the Persians, B.C. 480; and again by the Boeotians, B.C. 346. Hadrian built a smaller temple near the site of the former one. The ruins of Abe may still be traced on the S.W. side of a peaked hill to the west of Exarkhó. (See Leake's Northern Greece; Gell's Itinerary.)