Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . f a. , its great teacher, from his prison, under the wallsof Neros palace, sent a letter of grateful acknow-ledgment to his Macedonian converts. Philippi was QQ 4 600 rillLIPPI PROM. on the Egnatian road, 33 M. P. from Amphipolis,and 21 M. P. from Acontisma. (Itin. Anton. ;Itin. Hierosol.) The Theodosian Table presentstwo roads from Philippi to Heracleia Sintiea. Oneof the roads passed round the N. side of the hakeCercinitis, measurin,? 55 M. P., the other tookthe S. side of the lake, and measured 52 M. Macedonia was divided into two provinc
Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . f a. , its great teacher, from his prison, under the wallsof Neros palace, sent a letter of grateful acknow-ledgment to his Macedonian converts. Philippi was QQ 4 600 rillLIPPI PROM. on the Egnatian road, 33 M. P. from Amphipolis,and 21 M. P. from Acontisma. (Itin. Anton. ;Itin. Hierosol.) The Theodosian Table presentstwo roads from Philippi to Heracleia Sintiea. Oneof the roads passed round the N. side of the hakeCercinitis, measurin,? 55 M. P., the other tookthe S. side of the lake, and measured 52 M. Macedonia was divided into two provincesby Theodosius the Younjrer, Philippi became theecclesiastical head of Macedonia Prima (Neale,Hist, of East Church, vol. i. p. 92), and is men-tioned in the Handbook of Hierocles. The site, where tliere are considerable remains ofantiquity, is still known to the Greeks by its ancientname; by the Turks the place is called FelibedjiLFor coins of Philippi, see Eckhel, p. 75. (Leake,Northern Greece, vol. iii. —223.) []. COIN OF PHILirPI. PHILIPPI PROM. (* &Kpa, Stadiasm.§ 85), a headland on the coast of the Great Syrtis,identical with the Hippi Pkom. of Ptolemy (iv. 3.§ U), and with the remarkable projection of highclitf into the sea. on which are traces of a strongfortress, at Ras Bcrgaioad. Beechey {Expedition tothe N. Coast of Africa, p. 188) identifies this cliff,which he calls Bengerwad, with Euphrantas ; butthis is a mistake, as is shown by Barth (Wander-ungen, p. 367), who refers the station Ad Turrem{Peut. Tab.) to this headland. [E. B. J.] PHILIPPOPOLIS. 1. (, Ptol. § 12 ; Polyb. V. 100; Steph. B. s. v.), a town ofTlirace, founded by Philip of Macedon, on the siteof a previously existing town, called Eumolpias orPoneropolis. (Amm. Marc. xxvi. 10. § 4; Plin. iv. 18.) From its situation on a hill with threepeaks or summits, it was also called Trimontium.(Plin. 1. c; Ptol. i. c.) It lay on the SE. side ofthe He
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