asiaticus

Updated: June 24, 2025

Antiochus Asiaticus, whose claims on the Syrian throne had met with recognition both from the senate and from Lucullus, had been received in Antioch after the retreat of the Armenians and there acknowledged as king.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome, Book V : The Establishment of the Military Monarchy

There was hardly a day on which the newspapers did not contain some puff upon Hastings, signed Asiaticus or Bengalensis, but known to be written by the indefatigable Scott; and hardly a month in which some bulky pamphlet on the same subject, and from the same pen, did not pass to the trunk-makers and the pastry-cooks.

Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay - Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3)

I am intrusting to writing healthful admonitions compositions, as it were, of useful medicines." But the days of Caius drew rapidly to an end. His gross and unheard-of insults to Valerius Asiaticus and Cassius Chaereas brought on him condign vengeance.

F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar - Seekers after God

Antiochus Asiaticus, whose claims on the Syrian throne had met with recognition both from the senate and from Lucullus, had been received in Antioch after the retreat of the Armenians and there acknowledged as king.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5)

Legal proceedings were taken not only against Asiaticus, but against Africanus, who behaved with great violence and arrogance. In the end Africanus withdrew to his country estate, while his brother was condemned to pay a heavy fine. A death-stroke had been given to the almost kingly authority of Africanus, who never again showed his face in Rome.

Marcus Tullius Cicero - Cato Maior de Senectute with Introduction and Notes

Lucullus came forward throughout as the protector of the Hellenic princes and municipalities: in Commagene he placed Antiochus, a prince of the Seleucid house, on the throne; he recognized Antiochus Asiaticus, who after the withdrawal of the Armenians had returned to Antioch, as king of Syria; he sent the forced settlers of Tigranocerta once more away to their homes. Tigranes and Mithradates

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5)

But her pleasure and triumph were short-lived. The emperor was informed of her enormities, and hastened home to take vengeance. Having vainly tried all means of conciliation, and attempted without effect to kill herself, she was slain in a paroxysm of terror and anguish, by a blow of the executioner's falchion; and the death of Asiaticus was avenged on the very spot where it happened.

Hugh Macmillan - Roman Mosaics: Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood

That Asiagenus was the original title of the hero of Magnesia and of his descendants, is established by coins and inscriptions; the fact that the Capitoline Fasti call him -Asiaticus- is one of several traces indicating that these have undergone a non-contemporary revision.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome, Book III : From the Union of Italy to the Subjugation of Carthage and the Greek States

Tigranes ruled from B.C. 83 till B.C. 69, when he was attacked by the Romans, to whom he had given just cause of offence by his conduct in the Mithridatic struggle. Compelled by Lucullus to relinquish Syria, he retired to his own dominions, and was succeeded by the last Seleucid prince, Antiochus Asiaticus, who reigned from B.C. 69 to B.C. 65.

George Rawlinson - History of Phoenicia

To the northeast the eye lights on the Pincian Hill covered by the gardens of Lucullus, to possess which Messalina caused the death of Valerius Asiaticus, into whose possession they had fallen.

John Lord - The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization.