person
Apella
also: Apella
A stock Jewish name ('Apella the Jew'); a byword for credulity, the kind of man Horace says may believe in such miracles, but not he.
Reading notes
- The Satires §1.5 Apella the Jew
A stock Jewish name standing for the credulous believer; 'let Apella believe it, not I' voices Horace's Epicurean view that the gods do not meddle in nature.