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uÌ‚r-bā´nus (ΟὐÏβανοÌÏ‚, OurbanoÌs; the King James Version Urbane): A common slave name. Gifford says that it is found “as here, in juxtaposition with Ampliatus, in a list of imperial freedmen, on an inscription, 115 AD.†He was a member of the Christian community at Rome to whom Paul sent greetings. Paul calls him “our fellow-worker in Christ†(). “The 'our' (as opposed to 'my,' ) seems to suggest that all Christian workers had a common helper in Urbanus†(Denney).