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'Apion' (20s BC - ca. 45 AD), Graeco-Egyptian grammarian, sophist and commentator on Homer, was born at the Siwa Oasis, and flourished in the first half of the 1st century AD.
He studied at Alexandria, and headed one of the deputations sent to Caligula (in 40) by the various Alexandrian communities following inter communal riots that left many Greeks and Jews dead.
He settled at Rome -- it is uncertain when -- and taught rhetoric until the reign of Claudius. He wrote several works, none of which has survived. The well-known story "Androclus and the Lion", preserved in Aulus Gellius, is from his work. Fragments of his work are printed the ''Etymologicum Gudianum'', ed. Sturz, 1818.

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