James David Bourchier

James David Bourchier

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Portrait of James David Bourchier James David Bourchier 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 21… (1911)

Staatsverwaltung i. 187) . The city was twice visited by St Paul, whose Epistle to the Philippians was addressed to his converts here. The site, now uninhabited, is marked by ruins—the substructions of an amphitheatre, parts of a great temple—which have furnished interesting inscriptions. A little to the east is the huge stone monument of C. Vibius, known to the Turks as Dikelitashlar and to the Greeks as the Manger of Bucephalus.
See Heuzey and Daumet, Mission arch. en Macédoine, Paris (1865) , and other authorities in bibliography of Macedonia; Corp. Inscr. Lat. iii. 1.
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