Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature to the End of the Sixth Century/Silvanus, bishop of Emesa
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Silvanus (3), bp. of Emesa. In extreme old age, after 40 years' episcopate,
he was thrown to the wild beasts in Diocletian's persecution. Eus. H. E.
viii. 13; ix. 6; Theophan. p. 9; Le Quien, Or. Christ. ii. 837.
[E.V.]