The Acts of the Apostles

LANDS, NATIONS, CITIES, AND HOUSES 63
Tro\LTdp')(ai (xvii. 6, 8), while he calls the governor
of Malta (xxviii. 7) 6 TrpwTog rtjg vrja-ou. These
names are correct, for in the Roman colony Philippi
praetors (duumviri) held sway, the title " Politarch "
is vouched for in Thessalonica by inscriptions, and
the title irpwro^ M.€\iTai(jov is found in an inscription
discovered in Malta (Inscr. Graec. Ital. et. Sicil. 601)
a certain Prudens an eques Romanus is there so de-
scribed. We also learn from inscriptions that the
part which the official described as 6 ypa/uL/uLareu^
(town-clerk) plays in Ephesus (xix. 35 f.) suits the
ypajuLjULaTev^ in Ephesus, though it would not at all
suit the official of the same name in every other
city.i
The US9 of TOTTog is most varied, and yet even
* All the other official titles in the book are correct. The monarch
is called, as in Phil. iv. 22, simply 6 Ka7(rap (xvii. 7 ; xxv. 8-12, 21 ;
xxvi. 32 ; xxvii. 4 ; xxviii. 19) or 6 "Ze^acrros (xxv. 21, 25), or is
simply described by one of his own names (xi. 28 ; xviii. 2). He is
never called BacnXevs, a title, however, rightly applied to Herod
(xii. 1, 20) and to Agrippa (xxv. 13, 14, 24 ; xxvi. 2, 7, 13, 19, 26,
27, 30).
Sergius Paulus in Cyprus and Gallic in Corinth are rightly
called apdviraroi (xiii. 7, 8, 12 ; xviii. 12 ; [xix. 38]) ; on the other
hand this title is wanting, and rightly wanting, in the cases of
Felix and Festus ; each of these is called, as also in Josephus,
ijyefjubp (xxiii. 24, 26, 33, 34; xxiv. 1, 10; xxvi. 30). The term
iirapxi-o- ( = " provincia ") is found only in the mouth of Felix in his
question concerning St. Paul : iK Tro/ay iwapx^as (xxiii. 34) and in
the clause (xxv. 1)
: ^rjaros iwipas ry iirapxiq. [a strange use of
dative just as in xxvii. 2 : iirL^avres 7r\of(y] elsewhere it is avoided.
The titles eKaTovTdpxv^ (x. 1, 22; xxi. 32; xxii. 25, 26; xxiii. 17,
23 ; xxiv. 23 ; xxvii, 1, 6, 11, 31, 43 ; xxviii. 16) and xt^^apxoj
(xxi. 31-37 ; xxii. 24-29 ; xxiii. 10-22 ; xxiv. 7, 22 ; xxv. 23) are
correctly used. It is uncertain whether the Stratopedarch of
xxviii. 16 is original. The epithet ^^ KpanaTos" is only employed
in addressing Felix and Festus (xxiii. 26 ; xxiv. 3 ; xxvi. 25), and its
use in this instance is correct.
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