Sabellius

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

Săbellĭus, i, m.,

I an elder of the Christian Church at Rome , and afterwards at Ptolemais , in the third century , the founder of the heretical sect of Sabellians , Prud. Apoth. 178.

II —Hence, Săbellĭāni , ōrum, m., the followers of Sabellius , Sabellians , Ambros. Fid. 5, 13, 162; id. Incarn. Sacr. 2, 8.