Die städtische u. bürgerl. Verf. des röm. Reichs, i. 106 sqq.; Marquardt, Röm. Staatsverwalt. i. 374 sqq.; Stark in Schenkel i. 263; esp. Bp. Lghtft. Polycarp, p. 987 sqq.].*
ἀσιτία, -ας, ἡ, (ἄσιτος q. v.), abstinence from food (whether voluntary or enforced): πολλή long, Acts xxvii. 21. (Hdt. 3, 52; Eur. Suppl. 1105; [Aristot. probl. 10, 35; eth. Nic. 10 p. 1180b, 9]; Joseph. antt. 12, 7; al.)*
ἄ-σιτος, -ον, (σῖτος), fasting; without having eaten: Acts xxvii. 33, (Hom. Od. 4, 788; then fr. Soph. and Thuc. down.)*
ἀσκέω, -ῶ; 1. to form by art, to adorn; in Homer. 2. to exercise (one’s self), take pains, labor, strive; foll. by an inf. (as in Xen. mem. 2, 1, 6; Cyr. 5, 5, 12, etc.): Acts xxiv. 16.*
ἀσκός, -οῦ, ὁ, a leathern bag or bottle, in which water or wine was kept: Mt. ix. 17; Mk. ii. 22; Lk. v. 37 sq. (Often in Grk. writ. fr. Hom. down; Sept.) [BB.DD. s. v. Bottle; Tristram, Nat. Hist. of the Bible, p. 92.]*
ἀσμένως, adv., (for ἡσμένως; fr. ἥδομαι), with joy, gladly: Acts ii. 41 [Rec.]; xxi. 17. (In Grk. writ. fr. Hom. [the adv. fr. Aeschyl.] down.)*
ἄ-σοφος, -ον, (σοφός), unwise, foolish: Eph. v. 15. [From Theogn. down.]*
ἀσπάζομαι; [impf. ἠσπαζόμην]; 1 aor. ἠσπασάμην; (fr. σπάω with α intensive [q. v., but cf. Vaniček p. 1163; Curtius, Das Verbum, i. 324 sq.]; hence prop. to draw to one’s self [W. § 38, 7 fin]; cf. ἀσκαίρω for σκαίρω, ἀσπαίρω for σπαίρω, ἀσπαρίζω for σπαρίζω); [fr. Hom. down]; a. with an acc. of the pers., to salute one, greet, bid welcome, wish well to, (the Israelites, on meeting and at parting, generally used the formula שָׁלוֹם לְךָ); used of those accosting any one: Mt. x. 12; Mk. ix. 15; xv. 18; Lk. i. 40; Acts xxi. 19. of those who visit one to see him a little while, departing almost immediately afterwards: Acts xviii. 22; xxi. 7; like the Lat. salutare, our ‘pay one’s respects to,’ of those who show regard for a distinguished person by visiting him: Acts xxv. 13, (Joseph. antt. 1, 19, 5; 6, 11, 1). of those who greet one whom they meet in the way: Mt. v. 47 (in the East even now Christians and Mohammedans do not salute each other); Lk. x. 4 (as a salutation was made not merely by a slight gesture and a few words, but generally by embracing and kissing, a journey was retarded by saluting frequently). of those departing and bidding farewell: Acts xx. 1; xxi. 6 [R G]. of the absent, saluting by letter: Ro. xvi. 3, 5-23; 1 Co. xvi. 19; 2 Co. xiii. 12 (13); Phil. iv. 21 sq.; Col. iv. 10-12, 14 sq.; 1 Th. v. 26, etc. ἐν φιλήματι: Ro. xvi. 16; 1 Co. xvi. 20; 2 Co. xiii. 12; 1 Pet. v. 14. b. with an acc. of the thing, to receive joyfully, welcome: τὰς ἐπαγγελίας, Heb. xi. 13, (τὴν συμφοράν, Eur. Ion 587; τὴν εὔνοιαν, Joseph. antt. 6, 5, 3; τοὺς λόγους, ibid. 7, 8, 4; so saluto, Verg. Aen. 3, 524). [Comp.: ἀπ-ασπάζομαι.]
ἀσπάσμός, -οῦ, ὁ, (ἀσπάζομαι), a salutation,—either oral: Mt. xxiii. 7; Mk. xii. 38; Lk. i. 29, 41, 44; xi. 43; xx. 46; or written: 1 Co. xvi. 21; Col. iv. 18; 2 Th. iii. 17. [From Theogn. down.]*
ἄ-σπιλος, -ον, (σπῖλος a spot), spotless: ἀμνός, 1 Pet. i. 19; (ἵππος, Hdian. 5, 6, 16 [7 ed. Bekk.]; μῆλον, Anthol. Pal. 6, 252, 3). metaph. free from censure, irreproachable, 1 Tim. vi. 14; free from vice, unsullied, 2 Pet. iii. 14; ἀπὸ τοῦ κόσμου, Jas. i. 27 [B. § 132, 5]. (In eccl. writ.)*
ἀστίς, -ἰδος, ἡ, an asp, a small and most venomous serpent, the bite of which is fatal unless the part bitten be immediately cut away: Ro. iii. 13. (Deut. xxxii. 33; Is. xxx. 6 [etc. Hdt., Aristot., al.] Ael. nat. an. 2, 24; 6, 38; Plut. mor. p. 380 f. i. e. de Isid. et Osir. § 74; Oppian. cyn. 3, 433.) [Cf. BB.DD. s. v. Asp; Tristram, Nat. Hist. of the Bible, p. 270 sqq.]*
ἄσπονδος, -ον, (σπονδή a libation, which, as a kind of sacrifice, accompanied the making of treaties and compacts; cf. Lat. spondere); [fr. Thuc. down]; 1. without a treaty or covenant; of things not mutually agreed upon, e. g. abstinence from hostilities, Thuc. 1, 37, etc. 2. that cannot be persuaded to enter into a covenant, implacable, (in this sense fr. Aeschyl. down; esp. in the phrase ἄσπονδος πόλεμος, Dem. pro cor. p. 314, 16; Polyb. 1, 65, 6; [Philo de sacrif. § 4]; Cic. ad Att. 9, 10, 5; [cf. Trench § lii.]): joined with ἄστοργος, Ro. i. 31 Rec.; 2 Tim. iii. 3.*
ἀσσάριον, -ου, τό, an assarium or assarius, the name of a coin equal to the tenth part of a drachma [see δηνάριον], (dimin. of the Lat. as, Rabbin. אִיסָּר), [a penny]: Mt. x. 29; Lk. xii. 6. (Dion. Hal., Plut,, al.) [Cf. BB.DD. s. ν. Farthing.]*
ἆσσον, adv., nearer, (compar. of ἄγχι near [cf. ἐγγύς]): Acts xxvii. 13 [here Rec.st Ἆσσ. (or Ἄσσ. q. v.), Recbez elz. ἄσσ., (cf. Tdf. ad loc.); but see Meyer]. (Hom., Hdt., tragic poets; Joseph. antt. 19, 2, 4.)*
Ἄσσος [so all edd., perh. better -σσός; Chandler § 317, cf. § 319; Pape, Eigennamen s. v.], -ου, ἡ, Assos, a maritime city in Asia Minor, on the Ægean Sea [Gulf of Adramyttium], and nine [acc. to Tab. Peuting. (ed. Fortia d’Urban, Paris 1845, p. 170) 20 to 25] miles [see Hackett on Acts as below] distant [to the S.] from Troas, a city of Lesser Phrygia: Acts xx. 13 sq.; [formerly read also in Acts xxvii. 13 after the Vulg.; cf. ἆσσον. See Papers of the Archæol. Inst. of America, Classical Series i. (1882) esp. pp. 60 sqq.].*
ἀστατέω, -ῶ; (ἄστατος unstable, strolling about; cf. ἀκατάστατος); to wander about, to rove without a settled abode, [Α. V. to have no certain dwelling-place]: 1 Co. iv. 11. (Anthol. Pal. appendix 39, 4.)*
ἀστεῖος, -ον, (ἄστυ a city); 1. of the city; of polished manners (opp. to ἄγροικος rustic), genteel, (fr. Xen. and Plat. down). 2. elegant (of body), comely, fair, (Judith xi. 23; Aristaenet. 1, 4, 1 and 19, 8): of Moses (Ex. ii. 2), Heb. xi. 23; with τῷ θεῷ added, unto God, God being judge, i. e. truly fair, Acts vii. 20; cf. W. § 31, 4 a. p. 212 (199); [248 (232)]; B. 179 (156); (Philo, vit. Moys. i. § 3, says of Moses γεννηθεὶς ὁ παῖς εὐθὺς ὄψιν ἐνέφηνεν ἀστειοτέραν ἢ κατ’ ἰδιώτην). [Cf. Trench § cvi.]*
ἀστήρ, -έρος, ὁ, [fr. r. star (prob. as strewn over the sky), cf. ἄστρον, Lat. stella, Germ. Stern, Eng. star; Fick, Pt. i. 250; Curtius § 205; Vaniček p. 1146; fr. Hom.
