large; extensive
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
A Roman Christian (Rom_16:8).
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Am'plias. (large). A Christian at Rome. Rom_16:8. (A.D. 55).
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
am?pli-as (Textus Receptus Αμπλιᾶς, Ampliā́s), the King James Version form: a contraction of AMPLIATUS (thus, the Revised Version (British and American); which see).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Amplias
(Α᾿μπλίας), a Christian at Rome, mentioned by Paul as one whom he particularly loved (Rom_16:8), A.D. 55. It is not known with certainty who Amplias was; but the Greeks say that he was ordained bishop of Odypopolis, in Moesia, by the Apostle Andrew, and was an apostolical person, at least one of the seventy-two disciples, and a martyr. His festival, in the Greek calendar, is observed Oct. 31.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.