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4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Aquila \Aq"ui*la\, n.; pl {Aquil[ae]}. [L., an eagle.] 1. (Zo["o]l.) A genus of eagles. 2. (Astron.) A northern constellation southerly from Lyra and Cygnus and preceding the Dolphin; the Eagle. {Aquila alba} [L., white eagle], an alchemical name of {calomel}. --Brande & C. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: Aquila n 1: the provincial capital of the Abruzzi region in central Italy [syn: {Aquila}, {L'Aquila}, {Aquila degli Abruzzi}] 2: a genus of Accipitridae [syn: {Aquila}, {genus Aquila}] From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: Aquila eagle, a native of Pontus, by occupation a tent-maker, whom Paul met on his first visit to Corinth (Acts 18:2). Along with his wife Priscilla he had fled from Rome in consequence of a decree (A.D. 50) by Claudius commanding all Jews to leave the city. Paul sojourned with him at Corinth, and they wrought together at their common trade making Cilician hair-cloth for tents. On Paul's departure from Corinth after eighteen months, Aquila and his wife accompanied him to Ephesus, where they remained, while he proceeded to Syria (Acts 18:18, 26). When they became Christians we are not informed, but in Ephesus they were (1 Cor. 16:19) Paul's "helpers in Christ Jesus." We find them afterwards at Rome (Rom. 16:3), interesting themselves still in the cause of Christ. They are referred to some years after this as being at Ephesus (2 Tim. 4:19). This is the last notice we have of them From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: Aquila, an eagle
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