賓夕法尼亞州的城市,位於特拉華河和斯庫爾基爾河之間,源自希臘語,由威廉·佩恩採用,意爲“兄弟之愛”,由 philos “愛”(見 philo-)和 adelphos “兄弟”(見 Adelphi)組成。相關: Philadelphian。
此外,該名稱還回憶起新約中提到的古代裏底亞城,它是爲了紀念佩加蒙國王阿塔洛斯二世 Philadelphos 而得名的,公元前2世紀,他創立了這座城市。據說他的頭銜意味着“愛兄弟”,或者是指他對他的兄弟尤梅內斯的感情。
Philadelphia lawyer “聰明、精明的律師”最早見於1788年的倫敦,最初據說是用來形容安德魯·漢密爾頓的,他在1735年在紐約因誹謗指控而獲得了著名的 J.P.曾格的無罪釋放。
[C]ricket and coaching were after all popular in their day in places besides Philadelphia. It was merely that Philadelphia kept on with them longer than most places. This is a perennial Philadelphia trick, and gives to Philadelphia a sort of perpetual feeling of loss. Philadelphians are always just now getting rid of things that are picturesque, like those gas lamps on the streets, only because everybody else got rid of them long ago. [Nathaniel Burt, "The Perennial Philadelphians," 1963]
“[畢竟,板球和教練在費城之外的地方也很受歡迎。只是費城比大多數地方更長時間地堅持下去。這是費城的一個永恆的把戲,給費城一種永久的失落感。費城人總是剛剛擺脫那些風景如畫的東西,比如街上的煤氣燈,只是因爲其他地方早就擺脫了它們。”[納撒尼爾·伯特,“永恆的費城人”,1963年]