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Titus
Titus lived on the island of Crete:
Epimenides – He is the poet that Paul references in 1:12
Epimenides of Knossos (Crete) (Greek: Ἐπιμενίδης) was a semi-mythical 6th century BC Greek
seer and philosopher-poet. While tending his father's sheep, he is said to have fallen asleep for
fifty-seven years in a Cretan cave sacred to Zeus, after which he reportedly awoke with the gift
of prophecy (Diogenes Laertius i. 109–115). Plutarch writes that Epimenides purified Athens
after the pollution brought by the Alcmeonidae, and that the seer's expertise in sacrifices and
reform of funeral practices were of great help to Solon in his reform of the Athenian state. The
only reward he would accept was a branch of the sacred olive, and a promise of perpetual
friendship between Athens and Cnossus (Plutarch, Life of Solon, 12; Aristotle, Ath. Pol., 1).
Location of Nicopolis (3:12)