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See also:PHILIPPI (Turk. Filibejik) , a See also:city of See also:ancient See also:Macedonia, on a steep 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 near the See also:river Gangites (mod. Angista), overlooking an extensive See also:plain and at no See also:great distance from the See also:coast of the See also:Aegean, on the See also:highway between Neapolis (Kavalla) and Thessalonica. Originally called Crenides (Fountains), it took its later name from 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 II. of Macedon, who made himself See also:master of the neighbouring See also:gold mines of the Hill of See also:Dionysus, and fortified the city as one of his frontier-towns. In 42 B.C., after the victory gained over the senatorial party by Octavius and Antony, it became a See also:Roman See also:colony, Colonia Julia Philippensis, which was probably increased after the See also:battle of See also:Actium (See also:Col„ Aug. Julia Phil.). The inhabitants received the See also:Jus Italicum, and Philippi was one of the specially designated " first cities " (Acts xvi. 12; see See also:Marquardt, Rom. Staatsverwaltung, i. 187). The city was twice visited by St See also:Paul, whose See also:Epistle to the See also:Philippians was addressed to his converts here. The site, now uninhabited, is marked by ruins—the substructions of an See also:amphitheatre, parts of a great See also:temple—which have furnished interesting See also:inscriptions. A little to the See also:east is the huge See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
stone See also:monument of C. Vibius, known to the See also:Turks as Dikelitashlar and to the Greeks as the Manger of See also:Bucephalus.
See Heuzey and Daumet, See also:Mission See also:arch. en Macedoine, See also:Paris (1865), and other authorities in bibliography of MACEDONIA; Corp..rnscr. See also:Lat. iii. 1. (J. D.
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