Πάτμος
ξένῳ δὲ σιγᾶν κρεῖττον ἢ κεκραγέναι → it's better for a stranger to keep silence than to shout (Menander)
English (Strong)
of uncertain derivation; Patmus, an islet in the Mediterranean: Patmos.
English (Thayer)
Πατμου, ἡ, Patmos, a small and rocky island in the Aegean Sea, reckoned as one of the Sporades (Thucydides 3,33; Strabo 10, p. 488; Pliny, h. n. 4,23); now called Patino or (chiefly in the middle ages (Howson)) Palmosa and having from four to five thousand Christian inhabitants (cf. Schubert, Raise in das Morgenland, Th. iii., pp. 425-443; Bleek, Vorless. üb. die Apokalypse, p. 157; Kneucker in Schenkel iv., p. 403 f; (BB. DD. under the word)). In it John , the author of the Apocalypse, says the revelations were made to him of the approaching consummation of God's kingdom: Justin Martyr (dialog contra Trypho, § 81, p. 308a. cf. Eusebius, h. e. 4,18, 8; see Charteris, Canonicity, chapter 34:and note)and) Irenaeus adv. haer. 5,30, that this John is the Apostle; see Ἰωάννης, 2,6.
