Apella, læ, mas. gen. A name wherhy the Iews were called indirifn, as it were Sine pelle, bicause the skinne of their parde was cut off, when they were circumcised.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
Ăpella, ae, m.I.The name of a Roman freedman, Cic. Att. 12, 19; id. Fam. 7, 25; Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 17.—II.The name of a credulous Jew who lived in the time of Horace; hence, appellative for a credulous man, Hor. S. 1, 5, 100.