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Syracuse - Syracuse (sȳr'a-kûse). The site of Syracuse rendered it a convenient place for the African corn-ships to touch at, for the harbor was an excellent one, and the fountain Arethusa in the island furnished an unfailing supply of excellent water
Syracuse - Syracuse , on the east coast of Sicily, was the principal city in the island. 241 the Romans took the western half of Sicily from the Carthaginians, but remained in alliance with the kings of Syracuse. The last king of Syracuse coquetted with the Carthaginians; the city was besieged and captured by Marcellus in 212, and the whole island was henceforth under a prætor, who had two quæstors, one situated at Lilybæum in the W. , the other at Syracuse. Christian memorials at Syracuse are not specially early
Rhegium - Here Paul (sailing from Syracuse) landed on his way to Rome and stopped a day (Acts 28:13). The intermediate position of Rhegium between Syracuse and Puteoli, his waiting there for a S
Rhe'Gium - Paul's voyage from Syracuse to Puteoli, after the shipwreck at Malta. It was originally a Greek colony; it was miserably destroyed by Dionysius of Syracuse
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Syracuse - Paul stayed in the Syracuse harbor three days on his way to Rome (Acts 28:12 )
Lucy, Saint - Virgin, martyr, born Syracuse, Sicily, 283; died there, 304. Patroness of Syracuse, Sicily
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Syracuse was situated on the east coast of Sicily, about midway between the modern Catania and Cape Passaro, and was the wealthiest and most powerful of the Greek cities in the island. Syracuse defied Athens, when the latter was at the height of her power, and came off victorious. And Syracuse coveted a higher fame than that of warlike prowess. There was that in Syracuse which led her admirers to exaggerate. ) Syracuse, and indeed the whole of Sicily, suffered terribly at the hands of Sextus Pompeius; and, though Strabo (loc
Syracuse - of Sicily to the eastern shore on which lay Syracuse
Colony - Augustus founded colonies in Antioch (Psidian), Lystra, Troas, and Syracuse (all mentioned in Acts)
Syracuse - Syracuse is celebrated as having been the birthplace and residence of Archimedes, whose ingenious mechanical contrivances during its siege by the Romans, 200 B
Rhegium - Acts 28:13 describes how the ship had to tack to get from Syracuse to Rhegium, owing to the changing winds
Rhegium - For a time it held its own among the leading cities of Magna Graecia, but in revenge for a slighted Offer of friendship it was totally destroyed by Dionysius, the tyrant of Syracuse (387 b. Paul’s ship from Syracuse to Rhegium, St
New York, State of - The first permanent mission was established the next year, not far from Syracuse, by Father Joseph Chaumonot and Father Claude Dablon. ...
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Mediterranean Sea, the - Paul's work involved such Mediterranean cities as Caesarea, Antioch, Troas, Corinth, Tyre, Sidon, Syracuse, Rome, and Ephesus
Melita - The Castor and Pollux after wintering in Melita proceeded with Paul to Puteoli (Acts 28:11-13) by way of Syracuse and Rhegium. Therefore Melita lay on the regular route between Alexandria and Puteoli, which Malta does; and Syracuse, 80 miles off, and Rhegium would be the natural track from the neighboring Malta
Colony - ), Syracuse (21 b
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The usage current in the first and second centuries is similarly reflected by Pausanias, who speaks of Alpheus flowing under Adria from Greece to Ortygia in Syracuse (viii
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Pelagius i., Bishop of Rome - He proceeded to Rome after the death of Vigilius at Syracuse, and was there consecrated pope, being supported by Narses, at that time in command of Rome, who acted under the emperor's orders
Ship - ) Paul was first in the Adramyttian coasting vessel from Caesarea to Myra; then in the large Alexandrian grain ship wrecked at Malta; then in another Alexandrian grain ship from Malta by Syracuse and Rhegium to Purcell
Ship - It is important to remember that he accomplished it in three ships: first, the Adramyttian vessel which took him from Caesarea to Myra, and which was probably a coasting-vessel of no great size, (Acts 27:1-6 ) secondly, the large Alexandrian corn-ship, in which he was wrecked on the coast of Malta (Acts 27:6-28 ) :1; and thirdly, another large Alexandrian corn-ship, in which he sailed from Malta by Syracuse and Rhegium to Puteoli
Silvester, Bishop of Rome - of Syracuse (see a letter to him from Constantine preserved by Eusebius, H
Melita - And one other fact which tells decisively against the Dalmatian Melita is the call which the Dioscuri made at Syracuse on the way to Puteoli (Acts 28:12)
Province - This condition having been complied with, all of Sicily except Syracuse and its territory, which remained in the possession of King Hiero, the ally of Rome, became the first Roman province, Prouincia Sicilia, governed by an annual praetor, elected for the purpose, over and above the regular establishment of two praetors, who remained in the city of Rome
Violence - 70, 72, of the Athenian fleet forcing its way out of Syracuse (βιάζεσθαι τὸν ἔκπλουν), and in Xen
Roman Empire - They grew great enough to menace the power of Hiero, the Greek king of Syracuse. The Roman army was broken up into many small portions, leading strategic points were well garrisoned, and flying columns were dispatched over Italy, Capua, Tarentum, and Syracuse (in Sicily) were in turn lost and recovered
Luke, the Gospel According to - ...
Luke's describing minutely, in Paul's journey, the places before reaching Sicily and Italy, but omitting such description of Syracuse, Rhegium, Puteoli, Appii Forum, and the Three Taverns, as if familiar to his reader, implies Theophilus was well acquainted with Sicily and Italy
Prosper, Saint, a Native of Aquitaine - of Arles mentioned by Prosper; (2) that he was a lay monk of Gaul; (3) that he was the Hilary who wrote to Augustine from Syracuse, a
Vigilius, Bishop of Rome - But he died on his way at Syracuse towards the end of 554 or early in 555
Paul - They touched at Syracuse, where they stayed three days, and at Rhegium, from which place they were carried with a fair wind to Puteoli, where they left their ship and the sea
Justinianus i, Emperor - Being then released by Justinian, Vigilantius set off for Rome, but died in Syracuse upon his way
Pelagianism And Pelagius - Tidings of such a fresh outbreak came in 414 from Sicily, where one Hilary wrote to him that some Christians at Syracuse were asserting that man can be without sin and easily keep the commandments of God, if he will; that an unbaptized infant overtaken by death cannot possibly perish deservedly, as he is born without sin