TRYPHON:

By: Isidore Singer, Samuel Krauss

• 1. Son of Theudion; one of the four envoys sent by the Jews in 45 C.E. to petition Emperor Claudius that the high-priestly vestments might remain in the possession of the Jews (Josephus, "Ant." xx. 1, §§ 1-2; see also Dorotheus).
• 2. See Ṭarfon.

S. S. Kr.