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PUBLIUS, or Poplius.—The ‘first man’ of Malta, whose father was cured by St. Paul of fever and dysentery by laying on of hands (Act_28:7 f.). The title Prôtos (‘first man’) at Malta is attested by inscriptions; it occurs also at Pisidian Antioch (Act_13:50; cf. Act_25:2).
A. J. Maclean.