A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. By various writers. Ed. by William Smith. Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.

288 PIIILIPPUS. PI-IlLIPPUS.
one of the Roman nobles, who ornamented the city tioch, and became for a short time sole ruler of
with public buildings at the request of the emperor. Syria, probably in the year B.C. 88. But the
He built the temple of Hercules and the Muses, civil war was soon renewed by his remaining
which had been first erected by M. Fulvius No- brother Antiochus XII., who made himself master
bilior, consul B. C. 189, and he surrounded it with of Damascus and Coele-Syria, of which Philip was
a colonnade, which is frequently mentioned under unable to dispossess him. (Joseph. Ant. xiii. 13.
the name of Porticus Philippi. (Suet. Octav. 29; ~ 4, 14. ~ 3, 15. ~ 1; Euseb. Arm. p. 169.)
clari monimenta Plilippi, Ov. Fast. vi. 801; Mart. The subsequent fortunes of the latter are wholly
v. 49. 9; Plin. IH. N. xxxv. 10; Becker, Rimisc/s. unknown, but it seems certain that he was deAlterthlsii. vol. i. p. 613.) throned, and probably also put to death by TigraPhilippus left two children, a son [No. 7], and nes, king of Armenia, when that mollarch established
a daughter, Marcia, who was the second wife of himself on the throne of Syria, B. C. 83. (Trog.
Cato Uticensis. [MARCIA, No. 4.] Pomp. Prol. xl.; Euseb. Arm. p. 170; Eckhel.
7. L. MARCIus L. F. L. N. PHILIPPUIS, the son vol. iii. p. 244; Froelich. Ann. Syr. p. 114;
of the preceding, was tribune of the plebs, B. C. 49, Clinton, F. H. vol. iii. p. 339. [E. H. B.]
when he put his veto upon one of the appointments which the senate wished to make (Caes.
B. a. i. 6). He was praetor in B. C. 44, and
is in that year called by Cicero, vir patre, avo, /
majoribus ss csidnissinzus. (Cic. Phil. iii. 10.) / >
8. Q. (MARCIUS) PHILIPPUS, proconsul in Asia,
in B. C. 54, to whom Cicero sends two recom- i H3\)i
mendatory letters (ad Fam. xiii. 73, 74). T h e tconnection of this Philippus with the other members, 5~2L'A
of the family is not known.
One of the coins belonging to the Philippi has
been given above. The following one, which was
also struck by some member of the family, refers CON O
to the two greatest distinctions of the Marcia gens.
The obverse represents the head of Ancus Marcius, PHILIPPUS (4tXlriros), literary and ecclethe fourth king of Rome, from whom the'gens siastical. 1. ABUCARA or ABUVARA, one of the
claimed descent [MARCIA GENS]; the reverse Greek scholiasts on the Enchiridion of the Greek
gives a representation of an aqueduct, with the grammarian, Hephaestion of Alexandria [HEletters AQVA NR (i. e. Aqua Mlearcia) between PHAESTION, No. ]], or perhaps the compiler of the
the arches, supporting an equestrian statue. This Scholia, usually published in the various editions of
Aqua Marcia was one of the most important of the Hephaestion. The Scholia are ascribed to our
Roman aqueducts, and was built by the praetor Philip in a MS. in the King's Library at Paris.
Q. Marcius Rex in B. C. 145. (Catal. AMStorum Biblioth. Regiae, No. mmdclxxiv.
No. 1. vol. ii. p. 539, fol. Paris, 1740; Fabric.
~.~ Bibl. Graec. vol. xi. p. 709; Vossius, De list.
Graee. lib. iii.)
2. Of AMPHIPOLIS, a Greek writer of unknown
1'~5 3 \oE <ib) ~odate, remarkable for his obscenity, of which Suidas
(s. v. adroLro0a0M) has given a sufficiently significant
9o~ i o ai~ 1 Aspecimen. He wrote, according to Suidas (s.v.,iALhtrroS):-1.'Poslaac 3Aioa LO', Rhodiaca Libris
XIX., a history of Rhodes, which Suidas especially
PHILIPPUS (,ILAL7r7ros), king of SYRIA, was stigmatizes for the obscenity of its matter. 2. Keaa son of Antiochus VIII., and twin-brother of vd (s. Krri'acd), BLCXia /', Coiaca Libris duobus, a
Antiochus XI. After the defeat and death of history of the island of Cos. 3. O~uaaKcd, De Seatheir elder brother Seleucus VI., Philip and Antio- crificiis, or more probably OaaraKod, Thasiaca, a
chus united their arms against Antiochus X., who history of Thasos, also in two books. He wrote
then occupied the throne of Syria; but they were some other works not enumerated by Suidas. Theodefeated in a decisive battle, in which Antiochus XI. dorus Prisciannls, an ancient medical writer (Loyiperished. Philip nevertheless assumed the royal cus, c. 11), classes Philip of Amphipolis with Hetitle, and was able to maintain himself in the rodian and Iamblichus the Syrian [IAMBLICHUS,
possession of a part of Syria. The fourth No. 1], as a pleasant writer of amatory tales,
brother, Demetrius III., was now set up as king whose works tended to allure the mind to the purat Damascus by Ptolemy Lathurus, and made suit of pleasure. All his works appear to be lost.
common cause with Philip against Antiochus X. (Suidas 11. cc.; Theodor. Priscian. I. c.; Fabric.
The fate of the latter is uncertain, but it is clear Bibl. Graec. vol. viii. pp. 159, 160; Vossius, De
that Philip and Demetrius succeeded in making Hist. Graec. lib. iii.)
themselves masters lof the whole of Syria, which 3. APOSTOLUS. [No. 11.]
they appear to have divided between them. Their 4. CAESARIENSIS SYNODI RELATOR. The acconcord, however, did not last long; Demetrius count of the council of Caesareia, held A. D. 196,
was the first to turn his arms against Philip, but which (if indeed it be genuine) was written by
the latter was supported not only by Straton tyrant Theophilus of Caesareia, who lived about that
of Beraea, but by a large Parthian army under a time [THEOPHILUS], was published by the Jesuit
general named Mithridates, who blockaded Deme- Bucherius, in his notes to the Canon Paschlalis of
trius in his camp, and ultimately took him prisoner. Victorius of Aquitania, fol. Antwerp, 1634, as the
After this Philippus made himself master of An- work of one Philippus; the editor being alp