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Rh his own piety to the propagation of the Christian faith.

The next Christian mission to Hamyar occurred in the reign of Constantius. Amongst the hostages who had been delivered to the Romans by the people of Adiabene, was a man named Theophilus, afterwards known by the surname of Indus, or the Indian. His native country appears to have been the island of Dibu; or Divu, at the mouth of the river Indus. He soon displayed extraordinary