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Ā^sĭātĭcus , a, um, adj., = Ἀσιατικός,
I.Asiatic.
I. In gen.: “bellum,” Cic. Imp. Pomp. 7: “mos,” id. Or. 8, 27: “creta,” id. Fl. 16, 37: “Graeci,” id. ib. 25, 60: “exercitus,” Liv. 39, 6: “mare,” Plin. 5, 27, 28, § 102: “Persica,” a fruit from Asia, a kind of peach, id. 15, 12, 11, § 39; also absol.: “Asiatica,” Col. 10, 412: “picturae genus,” Plin. 35, 10, 36, § 75. —
II. Esp. as rhet. t., Asiatic, bombaslic: genus dicendi, a bombastic style of discourse, peculiar to Asiatics, Cic. Brut. 95, 325: “dictio,” id. ib. 95, 325: “oratores,” id. ib. 13, 51; cf. id. Or. 8, 27, and Asianus, II.— Subst.: Ā^sĭātĭcus , i, m., the surname of Cornelius Scipio, who conquered Antiochus, brother of Scipio Africanus, Liv. 37, 58; Gell. 7, 19; cf. Asiagenes.
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.

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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (6):
    • Cicero, On Pompey's Command, 7
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 15.39
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 37, 58
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 39, 6
    • Cicero, Brutus, 95.325
    • Cicero, Orator, 8.27
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