Philon
13. Of TARSUS, a deacon.
He was a companion of Ignatius of Antioch, and accompanied the martyr from the East to Rome, A. D. 107.
He is twice mentioned in the epistles of Ignatius (
ad Philadelph. 100.11,
ad Smyrnaeos, 100.13).
He is supposed to have written, along with Rheus Agathopus, the
Martyrium Ignatii, for which see IGNATIUS, in this work, Vol. II. p. 566b. (Comp. Cave,
Hist Litt. p. 28. ed. Genevae 1720