Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for A-POL-LI-NA'RI-AN
A-POL-LI-NA'RI-AN, a. [From Apollo.]
The Apollinarian games, a Roman antiquity, were celebrated in honor of Apollo; instituted A. R. 542, after the battle of Cannæ. They were merely scenical, with exhibitions of music, dances, and various mountebank tricks. – Encyc.
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