Ipsus

[ ip-suhs ]

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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

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

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