Ipsus

[ ip-suhs ]

noun

1. an ancient village in central Asia Minor, in Phrygia: the scene of a battle (301 b.c.) between the successors of Alexander the Great.

Ipsus

/ ˈɪpsəs /

noun

1. an ancient town in Asia Minor, in S Phrygia: site of a decisive battle (301 bc ) in the Wars of the Diadochi in which Lysimachus and Seleucus defeated Antigonus and Demetrius

Example Sentences

He declared that not if he had lost ten thousand fields like Ipsus would he consent to buy Seleukus for his son-in-law.

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As for Demetrius, although he had lost a kingdom at the battle of Ipsus, he soon managed to conquer another.

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In 301 the coalition triumphed over Antigonus in the battle of Ipsus (in Phrygia) and he himself was slain.

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Seleucus joined him in 301, and at the battle of Ipsus Antigonus was slain.

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This happened at the great battle of Ipsus in Phrygia, where they all met, with more than eighty thousand men in each army.

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