Apollonides of Nicaea () lived in the time of the Roman emperor Tiberius, to whom he dedicated a commentary on the Silloi of Timon of Phlius.Diogenes Laërtius, Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers 9.109
Apollonides wrote several works, all of which are lost: A commentary on the orations of Demosthenes (περὶ παραπρεσβείας).Ammon. s. v. ὄφλειν On fictitious stories (περὶ κατεψευσμένων), of which the third and eighth books are mentioned.Ammon. s. v. κατοίκησιςAnonym. in Vita Arati. A work on proverbs.Stephanus of Byzantium, Ethnica s. v. Τέρινα A work on Ion, the tragic poet. Harpocration s. v. Ἴων
An Apollonides, without any statement as to what was his native country, is mentioned by Strabo,Strabo, Geographica vii. p.309, xi. pp. 523, 528 Pliny the Elder,Pliny the Elder, Natural History 7.2 and by the Scholiast on Apollonius of Rhodes,Apollonius of Rhodes, 4.983, 1174 as the author of a work called Circumnavigation of Europe (περίπλος τῆς Εὐρώπης). Stobaeus quotes some senarii from one Apollonides.Florileg. 67.3, 6
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