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Olympas

Rom. xvi. 15.OLYMPAS, or Olympias; St. Paul writing to the Romans salutes Olympas, who was a Believer of a distinguished Vertue and Merit. The Particulars of his Life are unknown. The Greeks1 honour him on the 10th of November, and say he was beheaded at Rome the same Day that St. Peter was crucified there.

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  1. Menæa. p. 147, 150, 155. ↩

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