PHILIP THE ARAB (Marcus Julius Philippus). — Roman Emperor, b. around 204 at Subba in Trachonitis, d. at Verona in October 249. Son of Julius Marinus, an Arab sheikh, he married Otacilia Severa, by whom he had a son also named F.
Little is known of his life before his accession to power. He first appears as an officer in the Roman army during the war waged by Gordian III against the Persians in 242–43. Upon the death of Timesitheus, Gordian’s father-in-law, he was appointed Praetorian Prefect. Abusing the power of his office, he stirred up discontent among the soldiers against the Emperor and, heading a conspiracy, in March 244 he killed Gordian, succeeding him.
Having obtained the approval of the Roman Senate, to which he gave the impression that Gordian had died of illness, he quickly concluded peace with the Persians. He left his brother Priscus in the East and returned to Rome, where he managed to overcome the hostility directed against him. He spent the first two years of his reign fighting the Carpi, who were harassing the Roman colonists along the lower Danube, achieving a splendid triumph in 247. Meanwhile, in the eastern provinces of the Empire, revolts broke out led by claimants to the throne; the most dangerous was that of the Mesia, where the governor was none other than Philip’s father-in-law. To suppress it, he sent the general Decius, who, upon arriving, was proclaimed Emperor by the soldiers. Philip marched against him but was defeated and killed at Verona, while his son was slaughtered in Rome by the Praetorians.
Though Philip had come to power through intrigue and assassination, he proved energetic and generous; he issued laws to restore public morality. According to a tradition recorded by Eusebius (Hist. eccl., VI, 34), St. Jerome (De viris illustribus, 54), and St. John Chrysostom (De s. Babyla, 6), Philip would have been the first Christian Emperor. Eusebius reports that during Philip’s journey to Rome, when he was in Antioch on the eve of Easter, the bishop forced him to ask forgiveness for his misdeeds and to join the penitents. Certainly Philip showed great benevolence toward Christians; he allowed Pope Fabian to bring back to Rome the bodies of his predecessor Pontian and that of Hippolytus, who had died in Sardinia (Lib. Pont., I, p. 145); he was in epistolary contact with Origen (Eusebius, Hist. eccl., VI, 36). Nevertheless, it must be said that his Christianity, if he truly embraced it, remained
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