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&#;Apollinaris (or, according to Greek orthography, Apollinarius) the Elder, of Alexandria, was born about the beginning of the 4th cent. After teaching grammar for some time at Berytus in Phoenicea, he removed, A.D. , to Laodicea, of which church he was made presbyter. Here he married and had a son, afterwards the bp. of Laodicea. [ Apollinaris the Younger.] Both father and son were on intimate terms with the heathen sophists Libanius and Epiphanius of Petra, frequenting the lecture-room of the latter, on which account they were admonished and, upon their venturing to sit out the recitation of a hymn to Bacchus, excommunicated by Theodotus, bp. of Laodicea, but restored upon their subsequent repentance (Socr. Eccl. Hist. iii. 16; Soz. vi. 25).

The elder Apollinaris is chiefly noted for &#; his literary labours. When the edict of Julian, A.D. , forbade the Christi Apollinarius biography facts.