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Perhaps I should have explicitly stated that the use in Greek of the Latin loan word, as in my examples, does not refer to "a companion of a bishop."

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I think it is used in Greek,
by Epiphanius, Panarion, heresy 30.11, about Joseph of Tiberias
and, abbreviated, in an inscription in Sepphoris: CIJ 991; Lifshitz no. 74;
no. 26 in "Archisynagogoi..." by T. Rajak and D. Noy, J. of Roman Studies 83 (1993): 75-93.

Aristo(n) of Pella may have written Dialogue of Jason and Papiscus, though this is disputed. Luke has also been suggested as its author, but that can be dismissed. So, Aristo or some author unknown. Aristo certainly wrote something Christian. H. Tolley, Hermes 146 (2018) 90-100, "Ariston of Pel...

Of course not all sources and mss have equal weight.
Nor do they neatly fall into two categories, I suggest.
Nor, afaIk, do they support an imagined factory of Constantine pagan minions producing all NT apocrypha.

The last book in NT is Revelation of John, not Revelations.
Hebrew is not an Aramaic dialect,
and Syriac Aramaic dialect is probably later and more eastern than NT compositions.

1) Again, there was no "Hebrew dialect of Aramaic." Hebrew is not dialect of Aramaic. 2) If anyone tries to discredit and demote all sources that do not agree with a peculiar fixation about Constantine--even while having no good sources for that peculiar fixation about Constantine--then a ...

There are different kinds of ink. Different compositions. Not all inks are corrosive. Qumran mss evidently include some with ink-caused corrosion (e.g. 1QGenesis Apocryphon) and many with none.