Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology/Apollinaris 2.

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1. Claudius Apollinaris, bishop of Hierapolis in Phrygia (A. D. 170 and onwards), wrote an "Apology for the Christian faith" (λόγοι ὑπὲρ τῆς πίστεως δπολογίας) to the emperor M. Antoninus. He also wrote against the Jews and the Gentiles, and against the heresies of the Montanists and the Encratites, and some other works, all of which are lost. (Euseb. H. E. iv. 27, v. 19 ; Hieron. de Vir. Illust. 26, Epist. 84 ; Nicephorus, iv. 11 ; Photius, Cod. 14; Theodoret. de Hueret. Fab. iii. 2 ; Chronicon Paschale.)