*)akelima=s.
The headword
*A/kelima=s is found only here. Though Adler's capitalisation of it does not, of course, compel the inference, it is best understood as a personal name, and, if so, a variant of such a name found in other forms elsewhere. A very strong contender is Akepsemas/Akepsimas, similarly accented and (apart from the differing third vowel) involving a change of a single letter, psi to lambda, in the Greek. 'Akepsemas' of Cyrrhus (in
Syria) was a Christian hermit, to whom Theodoret devotes chapter 15 of the
Philotheus (
Historia religiosa); cf. Sozomenus (Salaminius
Hermias),
Historia Ecclesiastica (=
Die griechischen christlichen Schriftsteller 50) 13.4.3. Saint 'Akepsimas', bishop of Hnaita (in Persia), died a martyr's death in 370, during the anti-Christian persecution mounted by Shapor II (
Theodorus Anagnostes,
Epitome historiae tripartitae 1.35, and parallel sources).
Dr. Nick Nicholas suggests an alternative identification: "In William Smith & Henry Wace,
A Dictionary of Christian Biography, Literature, Sects and Doctrines (London: John Murray, 1877-87), s.v. Acembes [cross-referenced to the Suda's Acelimas], this name is identified with a chief of the Ophitic Peratae sect; the name appears as
*)Akembh/s in
Hippolytus (
Haer. iv 2, v 13) and Theodoret (
Haer. Fab. i. 17), and elsewhere as
*Ke/lmhs,
*Ke/lmis, and
*Ske/lmis."
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