Ἀσιάρχης
βίος ἀνεόρταστος μακρὴ ὁδὸς ἀπανδόκευτος → a life without feasting is a long journey without an inn | a life without festivals is a long journey without inns | a life without festivals is a long road without inns | a life without festivity is a long road without an inn | a life without festivity is like a long road without an inn | a life without holidays is like a long road without taverns | a life without parties is a long journey without inns | a life without public holidays is a long road without hotels
English (LSJ)
ου, ὁ,
A an Asiarch, priest of the Imperial cult in the province of Asia, Str.14.1.42, Act.Ap.19.31, IG12(3).531, 14.2405, etc.; Ἀ. ναῶν τῶν ἐν Ἐφέσῳ OGI525.8 (Halic.):—hence Ἀσι-αρχέω, BMus.Inscr.481*.240 (Ephesus, ii A. D.), etc.
German (Pape)
[Seite 370] ὁ, der Asiarch, der Oberpriester in der Provinz Asien unter der Herrschaft der Römer, Strab. 14; Act. Ap. 19, 31; Euseb. hist. ev. 4, 15.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
Ἀσιάρχης: -ου, ὁ, ἄρχων τῆς Ἀσίας· ἑκάστη πόλις τῆς ἀνθυπατικῆς ἐπαρχίας τῆς Ἀσίας ἐξέλεγεν ἕνα ἐκ τῶν ἐντιμοτάτων καὶ πλουσιωτάτων πολιτῶν αὐτῆς ὅπως προεδρεύσῃ εἰς τοὺς κατ’ ἐκεῖνο τὸ ἔτος γενησομένους ἀγῶνας εἰς τιμὴν τῶν θεῶν καὶ τοῦ αὐτοκράτορος τῶν Ρωμαίων. Ἑκάστη πόλις ἤγγελλε τὸν ἐκλεχθέντα εἰς τὸ κοινὸν τῆς Ἀσίας, ὅπερ συνήρχετο ἐν Ἐφέσῳ, ἢ Σμύρνῃ ἢ ἐν Σάρδεσι. Τὸ κοινὸν ἐξέλεγεν ἐκ πάντων τούτων δέκα οὓς ἐξέπεμπεν εἰς τὸν ἀνθύπατον, οὗτος δὲ ἐξέλεγεν ἕνα ἐξ αὐτῶν ὅπως προεδρεύσῃ ἐπὶ τῶν ἄλλων. Τοῦτο ἐξηγεῖ πῶς ἐν ταῖς Πράξ. τῶν Ἀποστ. ἀναφέρονται πολλοὶ Ἀσιάρχαι, ἐνῷ ὁ Εὐσέβ. ἀναφέρει μόνο ἕνα, Στράβ. 649, Πράξ. Ἀποστ. ιθ΄ 31, Μαρτύρ. Πολυκάρπ. 1037Β (= 1045Α ἀρχιερεὺς) Συλλ. Ἐπιγρ. 2511. 2912, κ. ἀλλ.· Ἀσ. ναῶν τῶν ἐν Ἐφέσῳ 2464· - ὡσαύτως Ἀσίαρχος, μετὰ τοῦ ῥήματος -αρχέω, 2990a, πρβλ. 3504, ἴδε Ramsay ἐν Amer. Inst. 1. σ. 103.
French (Bailly abrégé)
ου (ὁ) :
gouverneur de la province romaine d’Asie.
Étymologie: Ἀσία, ἄρχω.
English (Strong)
from Ἀσία and ἀρχή; an Asiarch or president of the public festivities in a city of Asia Minor: chief of Asia.
English (Thayer)
Ἀσιαρχου, ὁ, an Asiarch, President of Asia: τό κοινόν, selected ten out of the number of candidates, and sent them to the proconsul; and the proconsul, apparently, chose one of these ten to preside over the rest. This explains how it is that in Acts , the passage cited several Asiarchs are spoken of, while Eusebius, h. e. 4,15, 27 mentions only one; (perhaps also the title outlasted the service). Cf. Meyer on Acts , the passage cited; Winer s RWB under the word Asiarchen; (BB. DD. under the word; but especially Le Bas et Waddington, Voyage Archeol. Inscriptions part. v., p. 244 f; Kuhn, Die städtische u. bürgerl. Verf. des röm. Reichs, i. 106ff; Marquardt, Röm. Staatsverwalt. i. 374ff; Stark in Schenkel i., 263; especially Lightfoot Polycarp, p. 987ff).
