APURIMAC  , an interior

department of southern Peru, bounded N. by the department of Ayacucho, E. by Cuzco, S. and W. by Cuzco and Ayacucho, Area, 8187 sq. m.; pop . (1896) 177,387 . The department was created in 18?3 and comprises five provinces . Its physical features and productions are very similar to those of Ayacucho (q.v.), with the exception that sugar-cane is cultivated with noteworthy success in the low valley of the province of Abancay . The capital, Abancay, 110 m. south-west of Cuzco, which is only a village in size but is rich in historical associations and Andahuaylas, in the north-west part of the department, are its principal towns . Modern Apulia . APYRE%IA (Gr. alrvpe ia, from a-, privative, irvpE ruety, to be in a fever, 7rup, fire, fever), in pathology, the normal interval or period of intermission in a fever . `AQIBA BEN JOSEPH (c . 50-132), Jewish Palestinian rabbi, of the circle known as Lana (q.v.) . It is almost impossible to separate the true from the false in the numerous traditions respecting his life . He became the chief teacher in the rabbinical school of Jaffa, where, it is said, he had 24,000 scholars . What-ever their number, it seems certain that among them was the celebrated Rabbi Meir, and that through him and others 'Aqiba exerted a great influence on the development of the doctrines embodied in the Mishnah .

He sided with

Bar Cochebas in the last Jewish revolt against Rome, recognized him as the Messiah, and acted as his sword-bearer . Being taken prisoner by the Romans under Julius Severus, he was flayed alive with circumstances of great cruelty, and met his fate, according to tradition, with marvellous steadfastness and composure . He is said by some to have been a hundred and twenty years old at the time of his death . He is one of the ten Jewish martyrs whose names occur in a penitential prayer still used in the synagogue service . 'Aqiba was among the first to systematize the Jewish tradition, and he paved the way for the compilation of the Mishnah . From his school emanated the Greek translation of the scriptures by Aquila .