Aquila Romanus, a Latin grammarian who flourished in the second half of the 3rd century AD.

Roughly half of Frankie Yale's men and territory would be absorbed by the D ' Aquila family, which was now led by Al Mineo, while the rest remained under Carfano.

In the 15th century, L ' Aquila had become the second most powerful city in the Kingdom of Naples after Naples itself: there were half a million sheep, wool and saffron were exported throughout Europe ; all this unfortunately was lost when the Aquilans, during the war between the French and the Spaniards for the throne of Naples, sided with the French.

Giuseppe's half brothers Vincenzo, as family boss, and Ciro, as underboss, were next to run the family business until the 1920s when former Morello family capo Giuseppe " Joe the Boss " Masseria took over Morello's operations in Manhattan and Salvatore D ' Aquila took over in Brooklyn.

After the Christian couple Priscilla and Aquila corrected his incomplete Christian doctrine, his special gifts in preaching Jesus persuasively made him an important person in the congregation at Corinth, Greece after Paul's first visit there.

He began to preach boldly to the crowds about Jesus with accuracy and Priscilla and Aquila, who had accompanied Paul to Ephesus, and were still there, though Paul had departed, correctively instructed the eloquent and brilliant Apollos.

" When Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside and explained to him the way of God more adequately.

Apollos is regarded as a saint by several Christian churches, including the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, which hold a commemoration for him, Aquila and Priscilla on February 13.

When Paul refers to Priscilla and Aquila, of the seven times Priscilla and Aquila are mentioned in the New Testament, the Apostle Paul always lists them together, suggesting that he viewed them as a ministry team and also a family unit.

The work he began on this occasion was carried forward by Apollos and Aquila and Priscilla.

" the brethren ", Acts 18: 27, in addition to Priscilla and Aquila ), and it is easy to connect a sojourn of John in these provinces with the fact that the Holy Ghost did not permit the Apostle Paul on his second missionary journey to proclaim the Gospel in Asia, Mysia, and Bithynia ( Acts 16: 6 sq .).

" the brethren "), in addition to Priscilla and Aquila.

The estimation of the year of Paul's conversion relies on a series of calculations working backwards from the well established date of his trial before Gallio ( mentioned in the Delphi Inscription ) in Achaea Greece ( Acts 18: 12-17 ) AD 51-52, the meeting of Priscilla and Aquila which were expelled from Rome about AD 49 and the 14-year period before returning to Jerusalem in Galatians 2: 1.

Priscilla () and Aquila () were a first century Christian missionary couple described in the New Testament and traditionally listed among the Seventy Disciples.

Priscilla and Aquila are described in the New Testament as providing a presence that strengthened the early Jesus groups.

According to the account in, Priscilla and Aquila privately explained to Apollos a ' more accurate ' Christian presentation.

He went to the synagogue to teach and there Priscilla and Aquila heard something in his preaching that they wished to clarify.

Priscilla and Aquila therefore ‘ expound ’ ( ἐκτιθημι ) a highly specific Christian point or points to Apollos that most likely had to do with the baptism of John and the need for Apollos to more powerfully demonstrate from the Scriptures that Jesus was the Messiah, for that is the difference in Apollos ’ teaching post their instruction (;,, ).

Therefore, Priscilla and Aquila ‘ expound ’ ( ἐκτιθημι ) to an apostle named Apollos ( these three people are also called co-workers with Paul in and — an extremely precise Christian point or points which Apollos used in Corinth to powerfully demonstrate to the Jews from the Scriptures that Jesus was the Messiah.

#: There he ( Paul ) met a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had ordered all the Jews to leave Rome.

Then he left the brothers and sailed for Syria, accompanied by Priscilla and Aquila.

#: They arrived at Ephesus, where Paul left Priscilla and Aquila.

When Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they invited him to their home and explained to him the way of God more adequately.

#: Greet Priscilla and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus.

* Aquila Theatre, a theatre company currently of New York

The Wedge-tailed Eagle ( Aquila audax ), sometimes known as the Eaglehawk ( a slight misnomer, as it is among the largest raptors ) in its native range, is the largest bird of prey in Australia, and is also found in southern New Guinea.

In 1630 Aquila Chase left Chesham to join the colony, settling first at Hampton ( now New Hampshire ), then Newbury, Massachusetts.

D ' Aquila quickly used his ties to other Mafia leaders in the United States to create a network of influence and connections and was soon a powerful force in New York.

D ' Aquila now controlled the largest and most influential Italian gang in New York City.

Maranzano appointed Frank Scalise as head of the old D ' Aquila / Mineo gang, now designated as one of New York's new five families

* 1910 – 1928 — Salvatore " Toto " D ' Aquila – took over the Brooklyn Camorra in 1916 and merged with " Al Mineo's gang " forming the largest family in New York.

* Salvatore D ' Aquila ( 1877 – 1928 ), New York City Mafia boss

In October 1928, Brooklyn boss Salvatore D ' Aquila had been murdered during the Castellammarese War then raging among the New York gangs.

With the imprisonment of powerful Sicilian Mafia boss Giuseppe Morello in 1910, Salvatore D ' Aquila immediately emerged as a new Italian underworld power in New York City, mostly in Brooklyn but also in Manhattan, and by the mid 1910s was the top New York Mafia boss.

By the mid 1920s Mineo and his top lieutenant, Steve Ferrigno began to asses their position within the D ' Aquila organization, and understood at this time that the new power in New york was Joe Masseria, so Mineo secretly began to align himself with Masseria.

On October 10, 1928, while standing next to his car, just down the road from his home in the Bronx, Toto D ' Aquila, the New York Mafia's " Boss of Bosses " was murdered by gunmen as his family watched in horror.

* Priscilla, an early Christian of the Christian New Testament and companion to St. Paul ; see Priscilla and Aquila

Though some legends suggest otherwise, scholars do not believe she is the Priscilla ( Prisca ) of the New Testament couple, Priscilla and Aquila, who were friends of the Apostle Paul.

She is currently a partner at New York-based Aquila Associates.

Months after the D ' Aquila murder, Joe Masseria began a campaign to become Capo di tutti capi ( Boss of Bosses ) in the United States demanding tribute from the remaining three Mafia groups in New York City which included the Reina family, the Castellammarese Clan and the Profaci family.

* Aquila of Sinope, second-century translator of the Old Testament

Ignorant of Hebrew, and only rarely appealing to other Greek versions ( to Aquila once in the Ecthesis, to other versions once or twice on the Psalms ), his knowledge of the Old Testament is limited to the Septuagint.

The Masoretic text, the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Samaritan Pentateuch, the Greek Septuagint or ( LXX ), the Aquila, Symmachus and Theodotion, the Latin Vulgate, the Syriac Peshitta, the Aramaic Targums, and for the Psalms the Juxta Hebraica of Jerome were all consulted for the Old Testament.

Origen's Hexapla placed side by side six versions of the Old Testament, including the 2nd century Greek translations of Aquila of Sinope and Symmachus the Ebionite.