i-lus´tri-us (θαυμαστοÌÏ‚, thaumastoÌs): A title of rank and merit attached to the name of Bartacus, the father of Apame (1 Esdras 4:29, the King James Version “the admirable). Instead of “the illustrious†we should possibly read “colonel†(Ant., XI, iii, 5; EB, under the word). See BARTACUS; APAME.