Ipsus
an ancient village in central Asia Minor, in Phrygia: the scene of a battle (301 b.c.) between the successors of Alexander the Great.
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How to use Ipsus in a sentence
He declared that not if he had lost ten thousand fields like Ipsus would he consent to buy Seleukus for his son-in-law.
Plutarch's Lives, Volume IV | Aubrey StewartAs for Demetrius, although he had lost a kingdom at the battle of Ipsus, he soon managed to conquer another.
The Story of the Greeks | H. A. GuerberIn 301 the coalition triumphed over Antigonus in the battle of Ipsus (in Phrygia) and he himself was slain.
Seleucus joined him in 301, and at the battle of Ipsus Antigonus was slain.
This happened at the great battle of Ipsus in Phrygia, where they all met, with more than eighty thousand men in each army.
British Dictionary definitions for Ipsus
/ (ˈɪpsəs) /
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
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