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pat´roÌ„Ì-bas (ΠατÏοÌβας, PatroÌbas): The name of a member of the Christian community at Rome to whom Paul sent greetings (). The name is an abbreviated form of “Patrobius.†There was a wealthy freedman of Nero of the same name who was put to death by Galba (Tacitus, History i. 49; ii. 95). The Patrobas of Paul may have been a dependent of his.