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Credat Judæus or Credat Judæus Apella

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Tell that to the Marines. That may do for Apella, but I donʹt believe a word of it. Who this Apella was, nobody knows. (Horace: 1 Satires, v. line 100.)

⁂ Cicero mentions a person of this name in Ad Atticum (12, ep. 19); but see Ducange.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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