place
Asia
also: Asia
For Sallust, the lands of the Near East where Cyrus first built a great empire; later, the wealthy Roman province whose luxuries corrupted Sulla's army.
Reading notes
- The Conspiracy of Catiline §2 Asia
Here the lands of the Near East ruled by Cyrus; for a Roman reader also the proverbially luxurious eastern province.
- The Jugurthine War §17 Asia
One of the parts into which the ancients divided the world; in the minority scheme Sallust notes, the world had only Asia and Europe, with Africa reckoned part of Europe.
- The Histories §Cott.3 Asia
The Roman province of Asia (western Asia Minor), where armies are maintained against Mithridates.