Emesene

alternative Emisene

1. not comparableOf or pertaining to Emesa or its region.

   The Emesene guardsman's blade sparked off the marble.

   2011, Harry Sidebottom, Lion of the Sun: Warrior of Rome, →ISBN

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   This association may be explained by the kinship between the Emesene gods and those of Baalbek.

   2005, Maurice Sartre, The Middle East Under Rome, →ISBN, page 77

   But the names were presumably popular Emesene ones and may not necessarily refer to the royal family, despite the names' close associations with both the ruling dynasty and the Emesene Sun cult.

   2016, Warwick Ball, Rome in the East: The Transformation of an Empire, →ISBN

   Synonyms: Emesan, Emesenian

plural Emesenes · alternative Emisene

1. historicalA person from, or an inhabitant of, Emesa or its region.

   And Aurelius Antoninus, the Emesene, was he not slaughtered together with his mother?

   1854, Theodoret (Bishop of Cyrrhus.), Evagrius (Scholasticus), A history of the church from A.D. 322 to the death of Theodore of Mopsuestia, A.D. 427

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   But though the fiscus was put in charge of an Emesene of low character, the confiscations which Dio complains of the increased exaction of crown gold", and the general disorder into which the imperial finances fell may have been due less to the rapacity or incompetence of officials than to the foolish liberality by which the Emperor sought to win popular applause.

   1939, John Bagnell Bury, Stanley Arthur Cook, Frank E. Adcock, The Cambridge Ancient History - Volume 12, page 54

   A prominent Emesene, who may well have been a kinsman of Julia, was the victim, one Julius Alexander.

   2002, Anthony R Birley, Septimius Severus: The African Emperor, →ISBN

   Synonyms: Emesan, Emesenian

1. historicalA region in Syria along the middle and upper section of the Orontes river, between Epiphaneia to the north and Maurikiopolis to the south.

   All 713 inscriptions from the region of Emesene are in Greek, including funerary monuments.

   2007, Barbara Levick, Julia Domna: Syrian Empress, Routledge, page 11

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   Here Remy notes that four kings received ornamenta, the three here mentioned and Sohaemus of Emesene.

   1990, Seth Schwartz, Josephus and Judaean Politics, →ISBN, page 110

   Yet the question remains: how typical of conditions in Mount Lebanon and the Emesene was Abraames' experience?

   2001, Frank R. Trombley, Hellenic Religion and Christianization: C. 370-529, →ISBN, page 150