Philippi

Philippi, a city of Macedonia. It was named after Philip II. of Macedon (q.v.), who enlarged it because of the gold-mines in its neighbourhood. It is famous on account of the two battles fought in 42 B.C. between Antony and Octavianus on the one side and the republicans under Brutus and Cassius on the other, in the second of which the republic finally perished. The apostle Paul founded a Christian church here, to which one of his epistles is addressed.