TERTIUS tûr’ shĭ əs (Τέρτιος, G5470), the scribe or amanuensis to whom Paul dictated his Epistle to the Romans. Among Paul’s greetings to the Christians in Rome Tertius inserts his own, “I Tertius, the writer of this letter, greet you in the Lord” (Rom 16:22). Some identify him with Silas, seeing that shalish is Heb. for “third” as tertius is the Lat. Others conjecture that he was a Rom. Christian living in Corinth. Paul seems to have customarily dictated his letters to an amanuensis, adding a greeting in his own hand as “the mark in every letter of mine” (2 Thess 3:17).