The church in the Roman empire before . enthcentury, when it was borne by an official mentioned in thetreatise of Constantine Porphyrogenitus de Adm. Imp., is found in Phrygian inscriptions of the fourth century f(see Expositor, 1889, p. 395, and Lightfoot, Ignatius, i.,p. 501). One of these, shown in the accompanying illus-tration, deserves more notice ; it is the epitaph on thegravestone that marked the tomb of Abirkios, son ofPorphyrios, a deacon at Prymnessos. His name is a • Aburcus at Falerii, Deecke Falisker, p. 214 ; Avircius in Rome,, vi., 12923-5 ; Avercius in Gaul
The church in the Roman empire before . enthcentury, when it was borne by an official mentioned in thetreatise of Constantine Porphyrogenitus de Adm. Imp., is found in Phrygian inscriptions of the fourth century f(see Expositor, 1889, p. 395, and Lightfoot, Ignatius, i.,p. 501). One of these, shown in the accompanying illus-tration, deserves more notice ; it is the epitaph on thegravestone that marked the tomb of Abirkios, son ofPorphyrios, a deacon at Prymnessos. His name is a • Aburcus at Falerii, Deecke Falisker, p. 214 ; Avircius in Rome,, vi., 12923-5 ; Avercius in Gaul, xii.,1052 ; it spread to Cappa-docia as Abourgios, Basil, Ep., 33. Ignatius Theophorus is notRoman: he belonged to a Syrian family, strongly affected byWestern civilisation, which had discarded native names and usedthe double nomenclature, Italian and Greek. The unusual nameIgnatius has some historical explanation. t They mark the period when Avircius was remembered as theold Christian hero, and the legend was growing in Catholic W^W/W^/WW^^^
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