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== Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament <ref name="term_55090" /> == | == Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament <ref name="term_55090" /> == | ||
<p> (Ἀδραμύττιον; in the NT only the adjective Ἀδραμυττηνός [ Acts 27:2] is found; Westcott-Hort’s Greek TestamentἈδραμυτηνός).-This flourishing seaport of [[Mysia]] was situated at the head of the Adramyttian Gulf, opposite the island of Lesbos, in the shelter of the southern side of Mt. Ida, after which the [[Gulf]] was also called the ‘Idaean.’ </p> <p> Its name and origin were probably Phœnician, but [[Strabo]] describes it as ‘a city founded by a colony of Athenians, with a harbour and roadstead’ (xiii. i. 51). [[Rising]] to importance under the Attalids, it became the metropolis of the N.W. district of the Roman province of Asia, and the head of a <i> conventus juridicus </i> . Though it passed the coast-road which connected [[Ephesus]] with [[Troy]] and the Hellespont, while an inland highway linked it with Pergamos. </p> <p> It was in ‘a ship of Adramyttium’-larger than a mere coasting vessel-probably making for her own port, that St. Paul and St. Luke sailed from [[Caesarea]] by [[Sidon]] and under the lee (to the east) of [[Cyprus]] to [[Myra]] in Lycia, where they joined a corn-ship of [[Alexandria]] bound for Italy ( Acts 27:2-6). The modern town of <i> Edremid </i> , which inherits the name and much of the prosperity of Adramyttium, is 5 miles from the coast. </p> <p> Literature.-Conybeare-Howson, <i> St. Paul </i> , 1877, ii. 381f.; J. Smith, <i> [[Voyage]] and [[Shipwreck]] of St. Paul </i> 4, 1880, p. 62ff.; | <p> (Ἀδραμύττιον; in the NT only the adjective Ἀδραμυττηνός [ Acts 27:2] is found; Westcott-Hort’s Greek TestamentἈδραμυτηνός).-This flourishing seaport of [[Mysia]] was situated at the head of the Adramyttian Gulf, opposite the island of Lesbos, in the shelter of the southern side of Mt. Ida, after which the [[Gulf]] was also called the ‘Idaean.’ </p> <p> Its name and origin were probably Phœnician, but [[Strabo]] describes it as ‘a city founded by a colony of Athenians, with a harbour and roadstead’ (xiii. i. 51). [[Rising]] to importance under the Attalids, it became the metropolis of the N.W. district of the Roman province of Asia, and the head of a <i> conventus juridicus </i> . Though it passed the coast-road which connected [[Ephesus]] with [[Troy]] and the Hellespont, while an inland highway linked it with Pergamos. </p> <p> It was in ‘a ship of Adramyttium’-larger than a mere coasting vessel-probably making for her own port, that St. Paul and St. Luke sailed from [[Caesarea]] by [[Sidon]] and under the lee (to the east) of [[Cyprus]] to [[Myra]] in Lycia, where they joined a corn-ship of [[Alexandria]] bound for Italy ( Acts 27:2-6). The modern town of <i> Edremid </i> , which inherits the name and much of the prosperity of Adramyttium, is 5 miles from the coast. </p> <p> Literature.-Conybeare-Howson, <i> St. Paul </i> , 1877, ii. 381f.; J. Smith, <i> [[Voyage]] and [[Shipwreck]] of St. Paul </i> 4, 1880, p. 62ff.; W. M. Ramsay, <i> St. Paul the [[Traveller]] and the Raman [[Citizen]] </i> , 1895, p. 316. </p> <p> James Strahan. </p> | ||
== Smith's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_71298" /> == | == Smith's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_71298" /> == | ||
