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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 geographical and historical disquisition touching the Asia properly so called, the Lydian Asia (which is the Asia so often mentioned in the New Testament), the Proconsular Asia, and the Asian Diocese by James Usher.A geographicall and historicall disqvisition touching the Asia properly so called, the Lydian Asia (which is the Asia so often mentioned in the New Testament), the Proconsular Asia, and the Asian Diocese by James Ussher.
Oxford: printed by Henry Hall, 1643
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Chapter 4: Of the Asian Diocese, and the Metropolitan cities thereof; with the Civill and Ecclesia…
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By that which in the second chapter hath been delivered, it appeareth, that under the first Emperors there were many metropolitical cities within one Province; and some chosen out of them wherein Courts of justice were erected, unto which the next adjoining circuits might upon all occasions have recourse. Whereupon those contentions afterwards did arise betwixt the cities of the Proconsular Asia, touching each ones dignity and precedency: for the composing whereof Aristides made that Oration of concord unto them, which is still extant. Wherein yet the common desire of all the Asians accorded in this; ythat the Proconsul, at his first coming into the province, should pass into Asia by sea, and among the other Metropoles first arrive at Ephesus: as by the Rescript of the Emperor Antoninus (vouched by Ulpian, in his first book of the Proconsuls office) most manifestly appeareth.
By that which in the second chapter hath been delivered, it appeareth, that under the first Emperours there were many metropoliticall cities within one Province; and some chosen out of them wherein Courts of justice were erected, unto which the next adjoyning circuits might upon all occasions have recourse. Whereupon those contentions afterwards did arise betwixt the cities of the Proconsular Asia, touching each ones dignitie and precedency: for the composing whereof Aristides made that Oration of concord unto them, which is still extant. Wherein yet the common desire of all the Asians accorded in this; ythat the Proconsul, at his first comming into the province, should passe into Asia by sea, and among the other Metropoles first arrive at Ephesus: as by the Rescript of the Emperour Antoninus (vouched by Ulpian, in his first book of the Proconsuls office) most manifestly appeareth.
- yImpe•ator noster Antoni•u• Augustus ad desideria Asianorum resc•i•sit; Proconsuli •ecessitatem impositam, per mare Asiam appliae [Greek or Hebrew]. primam attingere Ulpian in