I.a poor and small town in Apulia, Plin. 3, 11, 16, § 144.—Hence, in the plur.: ăpĭnae , prov. (as tricae, q. v.), trifles, worthless things: “apinae tricaeque,” Mart. 14, 1, 7; 1, 113, 2 (some regard this form as from ἀφανής, obscure, of no account).
Ăpĭna , ae, f.,