d. early 4th century
Meropius (Ge'ez: Mérobopeyos), was a Christian merchant of Tyre whose voyage to "India" brought Frumentius and Aedesius to Aksum.
A. K. Irvine
Rufinus, Historia ecclesiastica, I. 9, Patrologia Latina, XXI, 478-80.
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