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(adjective) : Āsĭātĭcus, a, um, , = Ἀσιατικός
* Asiatic.
* 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.
* 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.: Āsĭātĭcus, i, m., the surname of Cornelius Scipio, who conquered Antiochus, brother of Scipio Africanus, Liv. 37, 58; Gell. 7, 19; cf. Asiagenes.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary