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<p> in Palestine, by birth a Jew, but converted to the true faith, flourished about 136. Mention is made by the author of the Chronicle of [[Alexandria]] of [[Apelles]] and Aristo, who presented apologies to [[Hadrian]] and whom, he says, Eusebius, praises in his Ecclesiastical History; but nothing of the kind is to be found' in Eusebius, and Cave thinks it likely that he has confounded the names of [[Aristides]] and Aristo. However this may be, [[Aristo]] of [[Pella]] wrote a book, entitled A [[Disputation]] between [[Jason]] and Papiscus, so, at least, St. Maximus says. Whether this Jason was the same: Jason of [[Thessalonica]] ( Acts 17:5; Romans 16:21) is very doubtful. Papiscus was an [[Alexandrian]] Jew, who, as it appears, was convinced by the argument, and baptized. This Disputation for a long- time existed in Greek; and [[Origen]] entirely refuted the arguments of Celsus, who endeavored to bring it into contempt. .It is now -entirely lost, although some writers, (upon the strength of an expression used by Rigaltius, by which he appeared to' them to. quote from [[Nicolas]] Fabrus, when, in reality, he .quotes from Jerome) have imagined that it is still in existence, It- was translated into [[Latin]] by another Celsus, who lived before the time of Constantine. See -Cave, Hist. Lit. i, 39. </p>