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Papia may refer to :
- Pavia, city in northern Italy
- Pupiana, Italia curiate name of a Latin Catholic titular bishorpic in Africa proconsularis
Usage examples of "papia".
Perhaps Eusebius is quoting Papias correctly, but even so, what can we glean from that quotation?
A series of facts of Evangelic history which have no parallel in the accounts of our Synoptists, and are certainly legendary, may be put together from the epistle of Barnabas, Justin, the second epistle of Clement, Papias, the Gospel to the Hebrews, and the Gospel to the Egyptians.
There is that marble where Papias of Aphrodisias has outlined a body tenderly nude, with the delicate resilience of narcissus.
The truth rather is that he as well as Melito, Hippolytus, Tertullian, Lactantius, Commodian, and Victorinus lived in these hopes no less than did Papias, the Asia Minor Presbyters and Justin.
Polycarp had gone to Smyrna as bishop, and Papias, 100 miles east, to Hierapolis.
There is that marble where Papias of Aphrodisias has outlined a body tenderly nude, with the delicate resilience of narcissus.