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See also:OPUS ('O7rois) , in See also:ancient See also:Greece, the See also:chief See also:city of the Opuntian Locrians; the walls of the See also:town may still be seen on a See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
hill about 6 m. S.E. of the See also:modern Atalante, and about i m. from the channel which separates the mainland from See also:Euboea. It is mentioned in the Homeric See also:catalogue among the towns of the Locrians, who were led by See also:Ajax Oileus; and there were See also:games called Aiantea and an See also:altar at Opus in See also:honour of Ajax. Opus was also the birthplace of Patroclus. See also:Pindar's Ninth Olympian See also:Ode is mainly devoted to the See also:glory and traditions of Opus. Its founder was Opus the son of See also:Zeus and Protogeneia, the daughter of an Elian Opus, or, according to another version, of See also:Deucalion and Pyrrha, and the wife of Locros. The Locrians deserted the See also:Greek See also:side in the See also:Persian See also:Wars; they were among the See also:allies of See also:Sparta in the Peloponnesian See also:War. In the struggle between See also:- PHILIP
- PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
- PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
- PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
- PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)
Philip V. of Macedon and the See also:Romans the town went over to the latter in 197 B.C., but the See also:Acropolis held out for Philip until his defeat at Cynoscephalae (See also:Livy xxxii. 32). The town suffered from earthquakes, such as that which destroyed the neighbouring Atalante in 1894.
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