Asiaticus

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

Ā̆sĭātĭcus, a, um, adj., = Ἀσιατικός, Asiatic.

I In gen.: bellum, Cic. Imp. Pomp. 7: mos, id. Or. 8, 27: creta, id. Fl. 16, 37: Graeci, id. ib. 25, 60: exercitus, Liv. 39, 6: mare, Plin. 5, 27, 28, § 102: Persica, a fruit from Asia , a kind of peach , id. 15, 12, 11, § 39; also absol. : Asiatica, Col. 10, 412: picturae genus, Plin. 35, 10, 36, § 75. —

II Esp. as rhet. t., Asiatic , bombaslic : genus dicendi, a bombastic style of discourse , peculiar to Asiatics, Cic. Brut. 95, 325: dictio, id. ib. 95, 325: oratores, id. ib. 13, 51; cf. id. Or. 8, 27, and Asianus, II.— Subst.: Ā̆sĭātĭcus , i, m., the surname of Cornelius Scipio , who conquered Antiochus , brother of Scipio Africanus, Liv. 37, 58; Gell. 7, 19; cf. Asiagenes.