Φιλίπποις (Philippois)

Φιλίπποις is an Ancient Greek form of Φίλιπποι, meaning “Philippi — a city in Macedonia (battle of 42 BC)”. It is the dative plural masculine noun or adjective.

It can also be a form of φίλιππος, “fond of horses, horse-loving”. It is the dative plural masculine noun or adjective.

Found 31 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Hecuba 428: ὅ τʼ ἐν φιλίπποις Θρῃξὶ Πολύδωρος κάσις.

Plutarch, Caesar 69.3: θαυμασιώτατον δὲ τῶν μὲν ἀνθρωπίνων τὸ περὶ Κάσσιον ἡττηθεὶς γὰρ ἐν Φιλίπποις ἐκείνῳ τῷ ξιφιδίῳ διέφθειρεν ἑαυτὸν ᾧ κατὰ Καίσαρος ἐχρήσατο τῶν δὲ θείων ὅ τε μέγας κομήτης ἐφάνη γὰρ ἐπὶ νύ …

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.