Adiatorix
{{Short description|1st-century BC Galatian priest and ruler of Comana in Cappadocia}}
Adiatorix ({{langx|grc|Ἀδιατόριξ}}) was the son of Domneclius (or Domnilaus), tetrarch of the Trocmi in Galatia.{{cite book | last = Syme | first = Ronald | author-link = Ronald Syme |author2= Anthony Richard Birley |author2-link= Anthony Birley | title = Anatolica: Studies in Strabo | publisher = Oxford University Press | date = 1995 | location = Oxford | pages = 130–132, 169–170 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=I7kSRCcu4xoC | isbn = 0-19-814943-3}} Cicero reports that he was a high priest in 50 BC, and scholars have reckoned him an adherent of Deiotarus. He belonged to Mark Antony's party, and was put in charge of Heraclea Pontica by him. Shortly before the Battle of Actium in 31, Adiatorix had all the Roman colonists in Heracleia put to death.{{Cite book | last = Smith | first = William | author-link = William Smith (lexicographer) | contribution = Adiatorix | editor-last = Smith | editor-first = William | title = Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology | volume = 1 | pages = 19 | place = Boston, MA | year = 1867 | contribution-url = http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0028.html | access-date = 2007-10-13 | archive-date = 2009-07-01 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090701094156/http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0028.html | url-status = dead }} He claimed he had been given permission to do so by Mark Antony, but modern writers consider this doubtful. After this battle he was led as prisoner in the triumph of Augustus, and put to death with his younger son. His elder son, Dyteutus, was subsequently made priest of Bellona in Comana, and therefore ruler of that territory.Strabo, xii. pp. 543, 558, 559Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares ii. 12
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Category:1st-century BC clergy
Category:Ancient Roman politicians
Category:Priests from the Roman Republic
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