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|strgr=from [[Ἀσία]] and [[ἀρχή]]; an Asiarch or [[president]] of the [[public]] festivities in a [[city]] of [[Asia]] Minor: [[chief]] of [[Asia]]. | |strgr=from [[Ἀσία]] and [[ἀρχή]]; an Asiarch or [[president]] of the [[public]] festivities in a [[city]] of [[Asia]] Minor: [[chief]] of [[Asia]]. | ||
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|txtha=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). | |||
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