Philippi] RY 'Philippi, which is a city of Macedonia, the first of the district, a Roman colony.' At Philippi, founded by Philip, father of Alexander the Great, Octavius and Antony had defeated the republican leaders, Brutus and Cassius, and the city, in honour of the victory, had been made a Roman colony with Latin rights. It lay on the great Egnatian way which united Italy and Asia, and was of great commercial importance. The chief city] lit. 'the first.' Some think that the meaning is that this was the first city reached by the Apostle in Macedonia, or in Europe.

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