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Nicopolis (I)

I. NICOPOLIS, a City of Epirus, upon the Gulph of Ambracia, where St. Paul pass’d his Winter in the Year 64 of the common Æra. He sent word to Titus, who was then in Crete, to come to him thither. Some Tit. iii. 12.are of Opinion1, that the City of Nicopolis, where St. Paul intended to spend his Winter, was not that of Epirus, but that of Thrace, upon the Borders of Macedonia, near the River Nessus.

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  1. Chrysost. Theodoret. Theophyl. Capell. ↩

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