A geographical and historical disquisition touching the Asia properly so called, the Lydian Asia…A geographicall and historicall disqvisition touching the Asia properly so called, the Lydian Asia…

A Diocese, in the language of the times whereof we speak, was ^aa circuit comprehending within it many provinces: and the Asian Diocese in that sense, sometimes taken more strictly, as it was distinguished from the Proconsular Asia and the provinces subject to the jurisdiction of the Proconsul thereof; and sometimes more largely, as containing those Proconsular provinces also under it. The former acception hath place in that Constitution of Theodosius the elder, whe•e ^bthe Proconsular Asia and the Asian Diocese are both nominated together: and generally where ever the office of the Vicarius or ^cComes (for these two titles are used ^dto signify the same dignity) of Asia or the Asian Diocese (or ^eRegion, as Julianus Antecessor rendereth it) is made mention of. The latter, when the Asian is rehearsed jointly with other Dioceses of the Eastern Empire: as in L. Si quis post hanc. C. Ut nemo ad suum patrocin. and L. Provinciae Thraciar· C. de militari veste.

A Diocese, in the language of the times whereof we speake, was ^aa circuit comprehending within it many provinces: and the Asian Diocese in that sense, sometimes taken more strictly, as it was distinguished from the Proconsular Asia and the provinces subject to the jurisdiction of the Proconsul thereof; and sometimes more largely, as containing those Proconsular provinces also under it. The former acception hath place in that Constitution of Theodosius the elder, whe•e ^bthe Proconsular Asia and the Asian Diocese are both nominated together: and generally where ever the office of the Vicarius or ^c