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<p> A city of Macedonia, situated between [[Amphipolis]] and Thessalonica, about a day's journey on foot from the former place, <span> Acts 17:1 </span> . </p>

<span> Acts 17:1 </span>

<p> A city of Macedonia. [[Paul]] and [[Silas]] passed through it on their way to [[Thessalonica]] from [[Philippi]] and [[Amphipolis]] ( <span> Acts 17:1 </span> ). in Mygdonia, 80 miles from Amphipolis, 37 from Thessalonica. </p>

<span> Acts 17:1 </span>

<p> <strong> APOLLONIA </strong> ( <span> Acts 17:1 </span> ). [[Paul]] and [[Silas]] passed through this town on the way from [[Amphipolis]] to Thessalonica. It is known that it was on the important Egnatian road which ran between Dyrrhachium (mod. <em> Durazzo </em> ) and Thessalonica, but its exact site has not yet been discovered. It was about half-way between Amphipolis and Thessalonica, and lay between the rivers Axius and Strymon. </p> <p> A. Souter. </p>

<p> ( <span> Ἀπολλωνία </span> ) </p> <p> A town of Mygdonia in Macedonia, S. of [[Lake]] Bolbe (Athen. viii. 334), and N. of the [[Chalcidian]] mountains. It lay on the <i> [[Via]] Egnatia </i> , and St. [[Paul]] ‘passed through’ [[Amphipolis]] and [[Apollonia]] on his way from [[Philippi]] to [[Thessalonica]] ( <span> Acts 17:1 </span> ). The intermediate towns were probably remembered by him as resting-places. According to the <i> Antonine [[Itinerary]] </i> , Apollonia was 37 [[Roman]] miles from Amphipolis, and 37 from Thessalonica. Leake identifies it with the modern village of Pollina. </p> <p> J. Strahan. </p>

<p> [[City]] of Macedonia, in the district of Mygdonia, some 28 miles from [[Amphipolis]] and 35 from Thessalonica, through which [[Paul]] and [[Silas]] passed. <span> Acts 17:1 </span> . </p>

<p> <span> [[Apollonia]] </span> ( <span> ap-pol-lo'ni-a </span> ), <span> belonging to Apollo. </span> The name of several places in [[Europe]] and Asia, of which Apollonia in [[Illyria]] was the most celebrated. But the Apollonia through which [[Paul]] passed, <span> Acts 17:1 </span> , was a city of Macedonia, about 36 miles east of Thessalonica, and 30 miles southwest of Amphipolis. </p>

<p> <span> Apollo'nia. </span> <span> (belonging to Apollo). </span> A city of Macedonia, through which [[Paul]] and [[Silas]] passed in their way from [[Philippi]] and [[Amphipolis]] to Thessalonica. <span> Acts 17:1 </span> . According to the <span> Antonine [[Itinerary]] </span> , it was distant 30 [[Roman]] miles from Amphipolis and 37 Roman miles from Thessalonica. </p>

<p> '''''ap''''' -'''''o''''' -'''''lō´ni''''' -'''''a''''' ( <span> Ἀπολλωνία </span> , <i> '''''Apollōnı́a''''' </i> ): A town in Mygdonia, a district in Macedonia. It was situated a little to the south of [[Lake]] Bolbe, on the [[Via]] Egnatia, the great [[Roman]] road leading from the coast of the [[Adriatic]] to the river Hebrus ( <i> Maritza </i> ), one of the main military and commercial highways of the empire: it lay between [[Amphipolis]] and Thessalonica, a day's journey (Livy xlv.28) or about 30 Roman miles from the former and 38 from the latter. The foundation of the town may perhaps be attributed to about 432 bc; in any case, coins are extant which attest its existence in the 4th century bc (Head, <i> Historia Numorum </i> , 181). [[Paul]] and [[Silas]] passed through the town on their journey from [[Philippi]] to Thessalonica, but do not appear to have stayed there ( <span> Acts 17:1 </span> ). The name seems to have survived in the modern <i> Pollina </i> (Leake, <i> [[Northern]] [[Greece]] </i> , III, 458; Cousinéry, <i> [[Voyage]] dans la Macédoine </i> , I, 115). </p>

<p> Apollo´nia, a city of Macedonia, in the province of Mygdonia, situated between [[Amphipolis]] and Thessalonica, thirty [[Roman]] miles from the former, and thirty-six from the latter. St. [[Paul]] passed through Amphipolis and [[Apollonia]] in his way to [[Thessalonica]] ( <span> Acts 17:1 </span> ). </p>

<p> ( <span> Ἀπολλωνία </span> <span> , </span> from <span> [[Apollo]] </span> ) <span> , </span> a city of Macedonia, in the province of Mygdonia (Plin. 4:17), situated between [[Amphipolis]] and Thessalonica, thirty [[Roman]] miles from the former, and thirty-six from the latter ( <span> Itiner. Anton. </span> p. 320, 330; <span> Itin. Hieros. </span> p. 605; <span> Tab. Peuting. </span> ) <span> . </span> It was south of the lake Bolbe and north of the [[Chalcidian]] mountains ( <span> Athen. </span> 8, 334). According to [[Stephen]] of Byzantium, it was founded by a colony of Corinthians and Corcyrians. The [[Apostle]] [[Paul]] passed through Amphipolis and [[Apollonia]] on his way to [[Thessalonica]] ( <span> Acts 17:1 </span> ; see Conybeare and Howson's [[Life]] and [[Epistles]] of St. Paul, 1, 320, 321). It must not be confounded with a noted Apollonia in [[Illyria]] (see Kype, Obs. Sacr. 2, 81 sq.). The city here spoken of was situated on the "Egnatian Way" in the interior of the district of Chalcidice (Scylax, p. 27; Xen. Hist. Gr. 5,2). The ruins are called Pollina (Cramer's Anc. Gr. 1, 264). </p> <p> ( <span> Ἀπολλωνία </span> , a frequent [[Greek]] name of cities, probably given in this case by one of the Seleucidae), a town of Palestine, between [[Caesarea]] and [[Joppa]] (Stephen of Byz.; Ptol. 5,16; Pliny, 5,14; <span> Peut. Tab. </span> ) <span> , </span> one of those on the sea-shore taken by the [[Jews]] under [[Alexander]] [[Jannaeus]] (Joseph. Ant. 13, 15, 4), and afterward repaired by [[Gabinius]] (Joseph. War, 1, 8, 4). It is now Arsuf, a deserted village at the mouth of the Nahr Arsuf (Irby and Mangles, Trav. p. 189; Robinson, Research. 3, 46; Chesney, Expedition, 1, 490), a place famous under the Crusaders (Wilken, Kreuzz. 2, 17, 39, 102; 4:416; 7:325, 400, 425), by whom it was confounded with [[Antipatris]] (Ritter, Erdk. 16, 590). </p> <p> a martyr of Alexandria, suffered with Metra, Quinta, and Serapion, in the year 249, when she was seized, and some one by a violent blow on the face knocked out many of her teeth; whence, in the [[Middle]] Ages, she was held to be the patroness against the toothache. [[Soon]] she was brought before the burning pile, and, on being asked to recant, reflected a moment, and then leaped into the fire. She is commemorated in the Roman [[Church]] on Feb. 9. Eusebius, Ch. Hist. 6, 41; Landon, Eccl. Dict. 1, 450. </p>