an ecclesiastical author of the first century; and, according to Origen, Eusebius, and Jerome, the same whom St Paul salutes in the end of his epistle to the Romans. He wrote a book in Greek some time before Domitian's persecution, which happened in the year 95. This work is intitled The Paphlagon, from his representing an angel speaking to him in it under the form of a shepherd. The Greek text is lost, but a very ancient Latin version of it is still extant. Some of the fathers have considered this book as canonical. The best edition of it is that of 1698, where it is to be found among the other apostolical fathers, illustrated with the notes and corrections of Cotelerius and Le Clerc. With them it was translated into English by Archbishop Wake, the best edition of which is that of 1710.

in botany: A genus of the monoecia order, belonging to the polygamia class of plants. The umbel in the hermaphrodite is terminal; there is an universal involucrum and partial ones. The rays of the small umbels are lobed; the central one flower-bearing; there are five petals, and as many barren stamens; the seeds are two-fold and suborbicular. In the male the lateral umbels have universal and partial involucra; the small umbels are many-flowered; there are five petals, and five fertile stamens.