Apina

• 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).

and Apĭnae. A small city of Apulia near Trica. Apina and Trica (Tricae) are terms used in Latin of trifles. Cf. Mart. xiv. 1; Plin. H. N. iii. 11.