See also:MARCUS See also:JULIUS See also:PHILIPPUS
, See also:Roman See also:emperor A.D
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244 to 249, often called " See also:- PHILIP
- PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
- PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
- PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
- PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)
Philip the Arab," was a native of Bostra in See also:Arabia Trachonitis
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Having entered the Roman See also:army, he See also:rose to be praetorian See also:praefect in the See also:Persian See also:campaign of See also:Gordian III., and, inspiring the soldiers to slay the See also:young emperor, was raised by them to the See also:purple (244)
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Of his reign little is known except that he celebrated the See also:secular See also:games with See also:great pomp in 248, when See also:Rome was supposed to have reached the thousandth See also:year of her existence
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A See also:rebellion See also:broke out among the legions of See also:Moesia, and See also:Decius, who was sent to quell it, was forced by the troops to put himself at their See also:head and See also:march upon See also:Italy
.
Philip was defeated and slain in a See also:battle near See also:Verona
.
According to See also:Christian writers, he was a convert to See also:Christianity
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See Aurelius See also:Victor, Caesares, 28; See also:Eutropius, ix
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3; See also:Zonaras,
19
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