Usually means: Ancient Christian historian, early Church.
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noun:  Hegesippus (Ἅγιος Ἡγήσιππος; c. 110 – c.180 ADThe Chronicon Paschale places the death of Hegesippus in the reign of the Roman Emperor Commodus.), also known as Hegesippus the Nazarene,James Trimm, Hegesippus the Nazarene: Fragments from His Five Books of Memoirs, retrieved 7 April 2020 was a Christian writer of the early Church who, in spite of his Greek name, may have been a Jewish convertW. Telfer marshals Eusebius' reasons for concluding so, in "Was Hegesippus a Jew?"
noun:  a statesman and orator, nicknamed "knot", probably from the way in which he wore his hair.


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