A.Asia, Pi.O.7.18, Hdt.1.4,4.45, A.Pr.412; “γῆ Ἀσία” S.OC694, etc.:—Adj. Ἀσια_νός , ή, όν, Asian, Asiatic, Th.1.6, etc.; “Ἀ. ῥήτορες” Theon Prog.2; “Ἀ. ζῆλος” Str.14.1.41, Plu.Ant.2. Adv. “-νῶς, ἑστιᾶν τινά” D.C.46.30:—fem. Ἀσιάς , άδος, and Ἀσίς , ίδος [the latter with α_], freq. in A. and E., never in S., Ἀσιάς being required by the metre in E.Or.1397 (lyr.), Ba.1168 (lyr.), Cyc.443, Ἀσίς in A.Pers.270 (lyr.), Supp.547 (lyr.), cf. Euph.34: Ἀσιάς (sc.γῆ), = Ἀσία, E.Tr.748, Ion 1356; also (sc. κιθάρα), the Asian harp, Ar.Th. 120, cf. E.Cyc.443, Plu.2.1133c:—also Ἀσιάτης , ἀσθμ-ᾶτις , Ion. ἀσθμ-ήτης , ἀσθμ-ῆτις , A.Pers.61 (lyr.), E.Andr.1, etc.: Ἀσια_τικός , ή, όν, Str.15.2.8: Ἀσίηθεν , Adv. from Asia, CIG6336. (Fem. of ἄσιος (q. v.).)
Ἀσία [α^], Ion. -ιη, ἡ,
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.
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