- Ἀσιάρχης
- Ἀσιάρχης, ου, ὁ (Strabo 14, 1, 42; ins) Asiarch, plainly equiv. to the ἀρχιερεὺς Ἀσίας (cp. CB I/2, 465 no. 299, where ἀρχιερεῖς is used in the sense ‘Asiarchs’) MPol 12:2 (cp. 21). Many would understand it so also in Ac 19:31 (s. e.g. JMarquardt, Röm. Staatsverwaltung I2 1881, 513ff; Lghtf., Ign. and Pol. III2 1889, 404ff; Ramsay, Bearing 88). But the titles are sometimes differentiated (SIG 900, 5), and the pl. in Ac rather favors a ref. to deputies of the κοινὸν Ἀσίας, the assembly of Asia, which met in Ephesus (so finally Beyer; Bauernfeind). Cp. Brandis, Pauly-W. II 1564ff (lit.); JWeiss RE X 538f; Thieme 17; LTaylor: Beginn. I 5, ’33, 256–62; DMagie, Roman Rule in Asia Minor, ’50, 449f, 1298–1301, 1526; Haenchen, ad loc.—RKearsley, in: BAFCS II, ’94, 363–76; idem, New Docs 4, 46–55. DDD 1350. EDNT. M-M.
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