He was accompanied by Sopater son of Pyrrhus from Berea, Aristarchus and Secundus from Thessalonica, Gaius from Derbe, Timothy also, and Tychicus and Trophimus from the province of Asia.
Epirus's King Pyrrhus had just been defeated by the Romans in Southern Italy but was able to occupy most of Macedonia, driving Antigonus into the coastal regions to the east.
Hermotimus was next(I find it in my charta)To whom it did pass, where no sooner it was missing, But with one Pyrrhus ofDelos it learmed to go a fishing; And thence did it enter the sophist of Greece.