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Headword: *si/las
Adler number: sigma,408
Translated headword: Silas
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
A proper name.[1] Also [sc. attested is] Sila in the feminine, a proper name.[2]
Greek Original:
*si/las: o)/noma ku/rion. kai\ *si/la qhluko/n, o)/noma ku/rion.
Notes:
[1] Best known as that of St Paul's companion in Acts.
[2] That of the Sila Forest in Calabria (SE Italy), half of which was appropriated by the Romans from the Bruttians in the mid third century BCE: Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 20.15.1; OCD(4) s.v.
Keywords: biography; Christianity; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; history; religion
Translated by: David Whitehead on 24 April 2003@08:20:26.
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Catharine Roth (set status) on 15 December 2004@00:29:23.
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