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Definition of Hippo regius
1. Noun. An ancient Numidian town in northwestern Africa adjoining present-day Annaba in northeastern Algeria.
Generic synonyms: Town
Group relationships: Algeria, Algerie, Democratic And Popular Republic Of Algeria
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hippo Regius
Literary usage of Hippo regius
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sketches of the History of Christian Art by Alexander Crawford Lindsay Crawford (1885)
"And at that very hour Augustine, bishop of hippo regius, was sitting in his cell,
meditating a treatise on the beatific vision, and had begun an epistle to ..."
2. Augustine: The Thinker by George Wilbur Osmun (1906)
"hippo regius. IN the Church of Augustine's day, formalities were not always
observed in the matter of selecting ministers. ..."
3. Letters from the South by Thomas Campbell (1837)
"... to Bona—Description of Bona by Leo—Ruins of the ancient hippo regius—The river
... hippo regius ..."
4. The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire by Edward Gibbon (1862)
"The old hippo regius was finally destroyed by the Arabs in the seventh century ;
but a new town, at the distance of two miles ..."
5. History of Phoenicia by George Rawlinson (1889)
"... hippo regius, Carthage, Hadrumetum, Leptis Minor, Leptis Major, and Thapsus ;—in
Sicily, Motya, ..."
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