Lewis Short
(adjective) : Appŭlēius (also, Āpŭl-), i, m.
* The name of several Romans, among whom the most distinguished were
* L. Appuleius Saturninus, a turbulent tribune of the people (about A.U.C. 653): post Gracchos eloquentissimus,Cic. Brut. 62, 224.
* A native of Madaura, in Africa, who was a spirited and flowery, but sometimes bombastic writer of the second century. His principal work yet extant is called Metamorphoseon sive de Asino Aureo libri XI.; cf. Bähr, Lit. Gesch. p. 422 sq.; Teuffel, Rom. Lit. § 362.—Hence
* Appŭlēius, a, um, , of Appuleius: lex, proposed by the tribune Appuleius, Cic. Balb. 21; id: Leg. 2, 6; Flor. 3, 16.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary