king of SYRIA, surnamed ASIATICUS (Ἀσιατικός), and on coins Dionysus Philopator Callinicus (Διόνυσος Φιλοπάτωρ Καλλίνικος), was the son of Antiochus X.
and Selene, an Egyptian princess. He repaired to Rome during the time that Tigranes had
possession of Syria, and passed through Syria on his return during the government of Verres.
(B. C. 73-71.) On the defeat of Tigranes in
B. C. 69, Lucullus allowed Antiochus Asiaticus to take possession of
the kingdom; but he was deprived of it in B. C. 65 by Pompey, who
reduced Sicily to a Roman province. In this year the Seleucidae ceased to reign. (Appian,
App. Syr. 49, 70; Cic. in Verr. 4.27, 28, 30; Justin, 40.2.) Some
writers suppose, that Antiochus Asiaticus afterwards reigned as king of Commagene, but there
are not sufficient reasons to support this opinion. [ANTIOCHUS I.,
king of Commagene.]
For the history and chronology of the Syrian kings in general, see Fröhlich, Annales Syria, &c. ; Vaillant, Seleucidarum Imperium,
&c. ; Niebuhr, Kleine Schriften, Historischer Gewinn aus der
armenischen Uebersetzung der Chronik des Eusebius ; Clinton, F. H.
vol. iii. Appendix, 100.3.