STRONGS G4484:
Ῥήγιον,
Ρ᾽ηγιου,
τό,
Rhegium (now
Reggio), a town and promontory at the extremity of the Bruttian peninsula, opposite Messana (Messina) in Sicily; (it seems to have got its name from the Greek verb
ῤήγνυμι, because at that point Sicily was believed to have been 'rent away' from Italy; so
Pliny observes, hist. nat. 3, 8 (14); (
Diodorus Siculus 4, 85;
Strabo 6, 258;
Philo de incorrupt. mund. § 26; others. See
Pape, Eigennamen, under the word)):
Acts 28:13.
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