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Apollonius
•Bierce, fierce, Pearce, Peirce, pierce, tierce
•Fabius, scabious
•Eusebius
•amphibious, Polybius•dubious • Thaddeus • compendious
•radius • tedious
•fastidious, hideous, insidious, invidious, perfidious
•Claudius•commodious, melodious, odious
•studious • Cepheus
•Morpheus, Orpheus
•Pelagius • callipygous • Vitellius
•alias, Sibelius, Vesalius
•Aurelius, Berzelius, contumelious, Cornelius, Delius
•bilious, punctilious, supercilious
•coleus • Julius • nucleus • Equuleus
•abstemious
•Ennius, Nennius•contemporaneous, cutaneous, extemporaneous, extraneous, instantaneous, miscellaneous, Pausanias, porcellaneous, simultaneous, spontaneous, subcutaneous
•genius, heterogeneous, homogeneous, ingenious
•consanguineous, ignominious, Phineas, sanguineous
•igneous, ligneous
•Vilnius
•acrimonious, antimonious, ceremonious, erroneous, euphonious, felonious, harmonious, parsimonious, Petronius, sanctimonious, Suetonius
•Apollonius • impecunious
•calumnious • Asclepius • impious
•Scorpius
•copious, Gropius, Procopius
•Marius • pancreas • retiarius
•Aquarius, calcareous, Darius, denarius, gregarious, hilarious, multifarious, nefarious, omnifarious, precarious, Sagittarius, senarius, Stradivarius, temerarious, various, vicarious
•Atreus
•delirious, Sirius
•vitreous
•censorious, glorious, laborious, meritorious, notorious, uproarious, uxorious, vainglorious, victorious
•opprobrious
•lugubrious, salubrious
•illustrious, industrious
•cinereous, deleterious, imperious, mysterious, Nereus, serious, Tiberius•curious, furious, injurious, luxurious, penurious, perjurious, spurious, sulphureous (US sulfureous), usurious
•Cassius, gaseous
•Alcaeus • Celsius
•Theseus, Tiresias
•osseous, Roscius
•nauseous
•caduceus, Lucius
•Perseus • Statius • Propertius
•Deo gratias • plenteous • piteous
•bounteous
•Grotius, Photius, Proteus
•beauteous, duteous
•courteous, sestertius
•Boethius, Prometheus
•envious • Octavius
•devious, previous
•lascivious, niveous, oblivious
•obvious
•Vesuvius, Vitruvius•impervious, pervious
•aqueous • subaqueous • obsequious
•Dionysius
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Apollonius (ăp´əlō´nēəs), in the books of the Maccabees. 1 Governor of Coele-Syria and Phoenicia for Seleucus IV. He oppressed the Jews and was killed by Judas Maccabaeus. 2 Governor of Coele-Syria under Alexander Balas.
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