APELLAS, a Greek sculptor, mentioned by Pausanias Apelles. Again, iElian ( Var. /Est., ii. 3) relates, that while (vi. 1, 6) as the author of a group at Olympia, representing Alexander was inspecting a painting of a home by Apelles, a quadriga, with the statues of a charioteer and of Cynisca, a horse neighed towards the picture, upon which the the sister of Archelaus. This group having been executed painter remarked that the horse knew more of art than the to commemorate the chariot victory gained by Cynisca at king. But Pliny (xxx 95) instances the neighing of a the Olympic games, 420 s.c., the date of the artist is ob- horse, only as having decided a competition between tained. A bronze sculptor of the same name, and probably Apelles and some other painter. Still, so far as the painter's the same person, occurs in Pliny (Nat. Hist., xxxiv 86). readiness of rebuke is concerned, these stories are confirmed