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( É᾿ïõíßáò , a deriv. of Junius, the name of a Roman family), a Christian at Rome, to whom Paul addressed a salutation in connection with Andronicus, as being his "kinsmen and fellow prisoners, who, are of note among the apostles," and were in Christ before himself (Rom_16:7); hence probably of Jewish extraction. A.D. 55. As the gender of the epithets applied is uncertain ( óõããåíåῖò êáὶ óõíáé÷ìáëώôïõò ), some (e.g. Origen, Chrysostom, and other fathers) have supposed a female ( É᾿ïõíßáí comes equally well from É᾿ïõíßá ) to be meant (but see Michaelis, in Pott's Sylloge, 7, 128).