Tattenai (Hastings' Dictionary)

The name of the governor (peluih) of Ca;le-Syria and Phojnicia under Darius Hysta-spis, Ezr 5' (B Qavavai, A BaBBavai, Luc. everywhere Tai-Sai-aios) ^ (B QavBava^, A QaBBavaU) «» (LXX om.) " (B 'Vo.vBaval, A QaBBaval). He is sailed in 1 Es 6'- '■ " i-"' 7' SISINNES {Ziaivvqi), which IS simply a reproduction in Greek (cf. 'Ziclv-r]^ in Arr. i. 25. 3, vii. 6. 4) of a Persian name Thi- thinaia (orig. Tlmthannia ?), with aspirated t. See Ed. Meyer, Entstehung dcs Judenthums, 32.

TAYERNS, THE THREE, is the rendering in Ac 28'° of Tpeis Ta^ipvai, the Greek form which represents the Latin Tres Tabcrnce, as the name of one of the two stations on the Appian high- way whither Christian brethren from Rome, who had heard of St. Paul's arrival at Puteoli on his way to the capital, went forth to meet him.

The first group of the brethren met him at a point earlier on his journey — tlie Market of Appius — (see Appius, Market of) 43 ( Roman) miles from Rome ; the second awaited liim at the stage called Tres Tabernce, wliich was 10 miles nearer to the capital, being, according to the Itinerary of Antoninus, 33 miles distant from it.

The Latin taberna, whicli is by no means to be identified with or restricted to our modem sense of tarcrn, but was applied to structures of boards, booths, huts, and sh(j|is of various kinds, probably denotes liere an inn for travellers. Three such inns might fitly give name to a halting-place, which doubtless was the seat of local traffic, and from whicli a road branched off' to Antium on the seacoast. Cicero mentions it in writing to Atticus {Ep. ii. 10, 12, 13).

Its precise site has hardly been identified, but is generally referred to the vicinity of the modern Cisterna. William P. Dickson.