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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Credat Judæus or Credat Judæus Apella.
 
Tell that to the Marines. That may do for Apella, but I don’t believe a word of it. Who this Apella was, nobody knows. (Horace: 1 Satires, v. line 100.)   1
   Cicero mentions a person of this name in Ad Atticum (12, ep. 19); but see DUCANGE.   2
 


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