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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.
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.
For example, the conqueror of king Antiochus not only had a statue of him self in Greek costume erected on the Capitol, but also, instead of calling himself in good Latin -Asiaticus-, assumed the unmeaning and anomalous, but yet magnificent and almost Greek, surname of Asiagenus . A more important consequence of this attitude of the ruling nation towards Hellenism was, that the process of Latinizing gained ground everywhere in Italy except where it encountered the Hellenes.
The former surname can only he a corruption of Asiagenus the form which later authors substituted for it which signifies not the conqueror of Asia, but an Asiatic by birth. II. VIII. Religion Mommsen's German version, and added in a note that I had not been able to find the original. Several scholars whom I consulted were not more successful; and Dr. Mommsen was at the time absent from Berlin.
II. VII. Submission of Lower Italy III. VII. The Romans Maintain a Standing Army in Spain III. VIII. The Celts of Asia Minor ff. Africanus, Asiagenus, Hispallus. The Third Macedonian War Dissatisfactions of Philip with Rome
The former surname can only he a corruption of Asiagenus the form which later authors substituted for it which signifies not the conqueror of Asia, but an Asiatic by birth. II. VIII. Religion Mommsen's German version, and added in a note that I had not been able to find the original. Several scholars whom I consulted were not more successful; and Dr. Mommsen was at the time absent from Berlin.
II. VII. Submission of Lower Italy III. VII. The Romans Maintain a Standing Army in Spain III. VIII. The Celts of Asia Minor ff. Africanus, Asiagenus, Hispallus. The Third Macedonian War Dissatisfactions of Philip with Rome
For example, the conqueror of king Antiochus not only had a statue of him self in Greek costume erected on the Capitol, but also, instead of calling himself in good Latin -Asiaticus-, assumed the unmeaning and anomalous, but yet magnificent and almost Greek, surname of Asiagenus . A more important consequence of this attitude of the ruling nation towards Hellenism was, that the process of Latinizing gained ground everywhere in Italy except where it encountered the Hellenes.
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