Ἱεράπολις

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κάλλιστον ἐφόδιον τῷ γήρᾳ ἡ παιδεία (Aristotle, quoted by Diogenes Laertius 5.21) → the finest provision for old age is education

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English (Strong)

from ἱερός and πόλις; holy city; Hierapolis, a place in Asia Minor: Hierapolis.

English (Thayer)

(WH ἱερά Πόλις; cf. Buttmann, 74; Lob. ad Phryn. 604 f), genitive: Ἱεραπόλεως, ἡ, Hierapolis, a city of Greater Phrygia, near the river Maeander (or rather, near the Lycus a few miles above its junction with the Maeander), not far from Colossae and Laodicea, now Pambuck Kulasi (for references see Lightfoot on Colossians , p. 1 f; B. D. American edition, under the word): Colossians 4:13.