Ipsus

American

[ip-suhs] / ˈɪp səs /

noun

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 British

/ ˈɪpsəs /

noun

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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A decisive battle was fought at Ipsus, in which Antigonus fell, in the eighty-first year of his age.

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Under him the collection of the library was commenced, probably soon after the defeat of Antigonus at the battle of Ipsus, B.C.

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It was not till after the battle of Ipsus in Phrygia, wherein Antigonus, and his son Demetrius, surnamed Poliorcetes, were defeated, and the former lost his life, that this partition was fully regulated and fixed.

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A great battle was fought at Ipsus, in Asia Minor, between Demetrius on one side and Cassander on the other.

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The battle of Ipsus decided the fate of Alexander's kingdom.

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