seems to have been connected in some way with the Appian family. It was situated at the northern end of a canal which ran thither from a few miles apparently above Terracina through the district of the Pomptine Marshes. The boatmen of whom Horace speaks in his lively description, u. s., were employed in conveying passengers in boats towed by mules along this canal. The Appian Way itself was parallel with the canal, so that the centurion and the Apostle might have travelled by either, and this uncertainty as to the route no doubt made the Roman Christians wait at Appii Forum. Night travellers ap- parently preferred the boat. The R.V. renders ‘‘ The Market of Appius” (really the Greek is a transliteration of the Latin Appii forum, as the words stood in 1611, ‘‘ forum” (not Forum), Hastings’ B.D.). The word apparently implied what we should call a borough or assize town, cf. Forum Julium,etc. The picture'drawn by Horace suggests a sharp contrast between the holy joy of the Christian meeting and the coarse vice and rude revelry which so often filled the wretched little town (Plumptre, C. and Η.).- Τριῶν Ταβ.: Tres Taberna, fre- quent halting-place, deversorium, about 33 miles from Rome on the Via Appia, probably at the point where the road from Antium crosses it, near the modern Cisterna. At this time it was a place of some importance, cf. Cic., Ad Att., ii., 12. The Latin taberne =a shop of any kind, and would require an adjective like deversoria (sc. taberna) to be equiva- lent to a tavern in the modern sense, Lewin, Saint Paul, ii., 224.---εὐχ. τῷ Θεῷ ἔλαβε θάρσος, cf. Job xvii. 9, whether Ramsay is correct in connecting this en- couragement with the chronic disorder of the Apostle, which would often occasion fits of depression, it is evident that St. Paul, who was so full of sympathy, * the heart of the world,” and craved for sym- pathy from others, may well have felt that he was still a prisoner, and the recent perilous voyage may also have left its mark upon him. Anyhow, the meeting with Christian friends, and the thought that these “bristians were not ashamed
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