Pergamenian

comparative more Pergamenian · superlative most Pergamenian

1. Of or relating to Pergamum.

   In the Pergamenian time the common cult was probably the worship of the typically Pergamenian deities (whose worship also spread to some of the Asian cities, as is pointed out, p. 124).

   1904, W[illiam] M[itchell] Ramsay, “The Province of Asia and the Imperial Religion”, in The Letters to the Seven Churches of Asia and Their Place in the Plan of the Apocalypse, London: Hodder and Stoughton […], →OCLC, page 117

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   About 133 b.c. the last king of Pergamum, Attalus III Philometor, bequeathed Ephesus, together with the rest of the Pergamenian kingdom, to the Romans and thereafter it continued subject to them.

   1946, Jack Finegan, “Ephesus”, in Light from the Ancient Past: The Archeological Background of the Hebrew-Christian Religion, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press; London: Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press, →OCLC, part VI (Following Paul the Traveler), chapter 2 (The Work of Paul), page 265

   The second senatus consultum, embedded in a Pergamenian decree, actually resolves that a King Antiochus, son of Antiochus, “shall not wrong the Jews” and that the fortresses, harbors, territory, and everything else he may have taken from them shall be given back.

   1990, Joseph Sievers, “[John] Hyrcanus and Antiochus VII Sidetes”, in The Hasmoneans and Their Supporters: From Mattathias to the Death of John Hyrcanus I (South Florida Studies in the History of Judaism; 6), Atlanta, Ga.: Scholars Press, →ISBN, chapter V (John Hyrcanus I), page 138

   Synonyms: Pergamene, Pergamean

plural Pergamenians

1. A native or inhabitant of Pergamum.

   Pergamum received a Judean embassy on its way back from Rome and stressed the friendship that existed between Jews and Pergamenians purportedly from the time of Abraham (Ant. 14.252-255).

   1990, Joseph Sievers, “Conclusion”, in The Hasmoneans and Their Supporters: From Mattathias to the Death of John Hyrcanus I (South Florida Studies in the History of Judaism; 6), Atlanta, Ga.: Scholars Press, →ISBN, chapter V (John Hyrcanus I), page 154

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   About the time that Sylla was making ready, to put off with his Forces from Italy, beſides many other Divine Omens which befell Mithridates [VI Eupator] at Pergamos, there goes a ſtory, that the Statue of Victory, with a Crown in her hand, which the Pergamenians by Engines from above let down on him, when ſhe had almoſt reacht his head, fell aſunder, and the Crown tumbling down into the midſt of the Theatre, broke to pieces againſt the ground, […]

   1684, Plutarch, “The Life of L[ucius] C[ornelius] Sylla”, in William Davies, transl., The Third Volume of Plutarch’s Lives. Translated from the Greek, […], London: […] Jacob Tonson […], pages 240–241

   Naturally, that kind of persecution originated from Pergamum, and had there its centre; but many martyrs were tried and condemned there who were not Pergamenians. […] It is not even certain that Antipas [of Pergamum] was a member of that congregation: the words are not inconsistent with the possibility that Antipas was brought up for trial from some other city, and “killed among the Pergamenians”.

   1904, W[illiam] M[itchell] Ramsay, “The Letter to the Church in Pergamum”, in The Letters to the Seven Churches of Asia and Their Place in the Plan of the Apocalypse, London: Hodder and Stoughton […], →OCLC, pages 297–298

   Synonyms: Pergamene, Pergamean