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Hierapolis

Hierapolis · f

A city of Great Phrygia

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Where it lives

Res Gestae 4 · 0.31/10k
De Architectura 1 · 0.17/10k
Naturalis Historia 4 · 0.1/10k

What it meant

Hĭĕrāpŏlis — Lewis & Short

Hĭĕrāpŏlis, is, f., = *(iera/polis.

I A city of Great Phrygia, now Pambouk Kaleh, Vitr. 8, 3, 10; Plin. 2, 93, 95, § 208; Vulg. Col. 4, 13.—Hence,

1 Hĭĕrāpŏ-lītae, ārum, m., the inhabitants of Hierapolis, Plin. 5, 29, 29, § 105.—

2 Hĭĕrā-pŏlītāni, ōrum, m., the same, Macr. S. 1, 7; Dig. 43, 20, 1.

In the wild

Hierapolis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 5.23
Hierapoli Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 14.8.7
Hierapoli Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 2.93.p1
Hierapolim Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 14.7.5
Hierapolis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 5.26
Hierapolis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 4.12.p2

6 of 9 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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