Lipaxus or Lipaxos (Ancient Greek: Λίπαξος) was an ancient Greek polis (city-state) in the Chalcidice, ancient Macedonia. It is cited by Herodotus as one of the cities—together with Combreia, Lisaea, Gigonus, Campsa, Smila, Aeneia—located in the vicinity of the Thermaic Gulf, in a region called Crusis near the peninsula of Pallene, where Xerxes recruited troops in his expedition of the year 480 BCE against Greece.1
Its site is unlocated.2
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- Herodotus. Histories. Vol. 7.123.
- Talbert, Richard, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 50. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9, with accompanying Map-by-Map Directory.