I'm really tired of this thread!
Nonetheless, yet another suggestion, mostly since both apes and bees seem
extraordinarily unlikely to me. Could the word actually be an error for
_apris_ 'out of wild boars.' The ablative/dative plural might be odd,
but the animal seems much likelier.
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