toparch

To Janus Dousa toparch to Noortwiick, man with no equal: I send word to your most illustrious self that at last some of my poems, which I recently found scattered about on various scraps of paper which were previously festering away, might see the light.

To Tertullian's material Moses adds the letters exchanged by Tiberius and Abgar the Black, the toparch of Edessa, exactly in the years of the senatus consultum and of Lucius Vitellius's mission in the Near East (68).

Toparch was not beaten far when fifth in a decent race behind Arcadian Dream at the Curragh and looks the answer to the Kerry Group Handicap.

What is interesting, but not commented upon, is the fact that the Letters are closer in their wording to Eusebius than to the Teaching of Addai: thus Abgar calls himself 'toparch' and he addresses Jesus as 'the Saviour', whereas in the Teaching of Addai the king's letter begins 'Abgar the Black to Jesus the good Physician'.