APATU´RUM
APATU´RUM or
APATU´RUS (
Ἀπάτουρον, Strab.;
Ἀπάτουρος,
Steph. B. sub voce Ptol.), a town of the Sindae, on the Pontus Euxinus, near the Bosporus Cimmerius, which was almost uninhabited in Pliny's time.
It possessed a celebrated temple of Aphrodite Apaturus (the Deceiver); and there was also a temple to this goddess in the neighbouring town of Phanagoria. (
Strab. xi. p.495;
Plin. Nat. 6.6;
Ptol. 5.9.5;
Steph. B. sub voce