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