Achaicus
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Achaicus may refer to one of several people:
- Lucius Mummius Achaicus, a 2nd century BCE Roman statesman and general
- Achaicus, a Corinthian Christian, who according to the Bible, together with Fortunatus and Stephanas, carried a letter from the Corinthians to St. Paul, and from St. Paul to the Corinthians[1]
- Achaicus, a philosopher who wrote a work on Ethics. His time is unknown.[2][3][4][5]
[edit] References
- ^ 1 Corinthians 16:17; cf. also 16:15
- ^ Diogenes Laërtius vi. 99
- ^ Theodor. Graec. affect. cur. viii. p. 919, ed. Schulze
- ^ Clement of Alexandria, Strom. iv. p. 496, d.
- ^ Smith, William (1867), “Achaicus (2)”, in Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 1, Boston, MA, pp. 8