APION  ,

Greek grammarian and commentator on Homer, born at Oasis in Libya, flourished in the first half of the tst century A.D . He studied at Alexandria, and headed a deputation sent to Caligula (in 38) by the Alexandrians to complain of the Jews: his charges were answered by Josephus in his Contra A pionem . He settled at Rome—it is uncertain when—and taught rhetoric till the reign of Claudius . Apion was a man of great industry and learning, but extremely vain . He 'wrote several works, which are lost . The well-known story of Androclus and the lion, preserved in Aulus Gellius, is from his Atyvzrrewca; fragments of his FXCe'oavat `Oµopuual are printed in the Etynmlogicum Gudianum, ed . Sturz, 1818 .