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Appĭa, v. Appius.

1. Appĭānus, a, um, adj. [Appia], pertaining to Appia (a town in Phrygia Major): legati, Cic. Fam. 3, 7; and subst.: Appĭāni, ōrum, m., the inhabitants of Appia, Plin. 5, 29, 29, § 105.

2. Appĭānus, a, um, adj. [Appius], of or pertaining to Appius: libido, Liv. 3, 51: caedes, Tac. A. 11, 29: mala, apples (of great excellence), Plin. 15, 14, 15, § 49.

3. Appĭānus, a, um, adj. [Appius], Appian, of a castle in Rhætia: viride, quod Appianum vocatur, i. e. a kind of poor green soil, Plin. 35, 6, 29, § 48.

Appias, ădis, f. [Appius].

  1. I. An epithet of the nympi at the fountain of Aqua Appia (v. Applus), whose waters gushed forth near the temple of Venus: Non illas lites Appias ipsa probat, Ov. R. Am. 660; id. A. A. 1, 82.
    Hence, transf., to her statues, found at the neighboring temple of Venus: Appiadesque deae, Ov. A. A. 3, 452.
  2. II. An epithet of Minerva, given by Cicero jestingly, to flatter Appius Pulcher, in imitation of the appellative Pallas, Cic. Fam. 3, 1 Manut.

* Appĭĕtas, ātis, f. [Appius], the ancient nobility of the Appian family, a word formed jocosely by Cicero: Appietas aut Lentulitas, the nobility of Appius or Lentulus, Cic. Fam. 3, 7, 5.

1. ap-pingo (adp-, Baiter, K. and H.), ĕre, v. a., to paint upon something (very rare): Delphinum silvis adpingit, fluctibus aprum, * Hor. A. P. 30: colorem vetusculum, Front. Or. 1, p. 229; 2, p. 257; Laud. Neglig. 2, 371.
In Cic. in epistolary style, also of writing, to add by writing, to write: adpinge aliquid novi, Cic. Att. 2, 8, 2.

2. ap-pingo, ĕre, 3, v. a. [pango], to fasten or joint to: aliquid alicui rei, Paul. ex Fest. p. 8 Müll.

Appĭŏlae (better Apĭ-), ae, f., a city of Latium, probably near Bovillœ, Liv. 1, 35, 7 Weissenb.

Appĭus, ii, m., and Appĭa, ae, f. (abbrev. App.).

  1. I. A Roman prœnomen, esp. of persons of the gens Claudia; hence,
  2. II. Appĭus, a, um, adj., Appian.
    1. A. Appia via, the Appian Way, a well-known high-road, begun by the censor Appius Claudius Cœcus (about 442 A. U. C.), which began in Rome at the Porta Capena, and passed in a direct line to the Albanian Mountains, and thence through the Pontine Marshes to Capua; later it was continued to Brundisium, perh. by Trajan (the stones were large polygons of basaltic lava; parts here and there are yet in existence), Cic. Imp. Pomp. 18, 55; id. Mil. 6, 15; id. ad Q. Fr. 1, 1, 6; id. Phil. 7, 1, 1; Liv. 9, 29, 6; Front. Aquaed. 5; Inscr. Orell. 131; cf. Müll. Roms Camp. 2, 230.
      Called also Appī via, Hor. Ep. 1, 6, 26; and simply Appia, id. Epod. 4, 14, al.; Cic. Att. 2, 12.
    2. B. Appia aqua, the aqueduct which this same Appius constructed; Front. Aquaed. 5; cf. Liv. 9, 29.
    3. C. Appii Forum, a small market-town in Latium, founded by the same Appius, on the left side of the Via Appia, in the midst of the Pontine Marshes, now Foro Appio, Hor. S. 1, 5, 3; Vulg. Act. 28, 15; cf. Mann. Ital. I. 637 and 638.