Apphia (Hastings' Dictionary)

A Christian lady of Colossa-, a membiT of the household of Philemon, very probalily his wife. Iler memorj* is honoured in the Greek Church on Nov. 22, as having been stoned to death at Colossa; with i'liilrnion, Archippus, and Onesimus in the reign of Niru ; but the authority for this fact is unknown. Tlie name is Phrygian, being frequent in Phrygian Inscriptions under the varying forms 'A7r</.(n, 'Aipiftia, 'Anifiiat. In Philem. (v.')

the best attesteil reading is 'Air<pl</ ; but 'A<p<pl(f, 'kfiiplif, 'Arrlf are also found, and the Latin VSS vary between Appliiie, Apphiadi, Appia-. In the latter ca-so it was probalily a.HHimi- Inted to the Latin .\ppia (Light foot, Ci/lii.1.1. p. 372: Menieon, November, pp. 1-13-147). W. Locic. APPHUS ('Airi^oCt, lM<)><l>oit A, 2oT^I>t K V, ytj'j'/i tti 9 (Vulg. ), .mng^ ... (Syr.), 1 Mao 2° 'A^^oCt (.los. Ani. Xll. vi. 1)).

the surname of Jonathan the Mn*- 128 APPIUS, MARKET OF APPOINT cabee. The name is usually thought to mean ' Dissembler' (bisn) ; and some suppose that it was given to Jonathan for his stratatrem against the tribe of the Jambri, who had killed his brother John (1 Mac 9"-"). H. A. White. APPIOS, MARKET OF ('AtttIov <p6pov, AV Appii Furttm, Ac 28"), was one of the two points on St. Paul's journey to Rome at which he was met by Christian brethren from the capital.

It was situated 43 miles from Rome, on the great Appian military highway, which formed the main route toT mtercourse >vith Greece and the East. As a station where travellers halted and changed horses, it naturally became a seat of traffic and local jurisdiction. It was, moreover, the kirthem terminus of a canal {fossa) which was c&iTied alongside of the road, and was used, as we learn from Strabo (v. 233), for the conveyance, chiefly by night, of passengers in boats towed by mules.

Horace has {Sat. i. 5) preserved a vivid picture of the place, with its boatmen, innkeepers, and wayfarers, cheating, carousing, and quarrelling, amidst an accompanying plague of gnats and frogs from the Pomptine marshes. William P. Dickson.