Augustan Definition

ô-gŭstən
adjective
Of or relating to Augustus or his reign, considered as a time of great prosperity in the Roman Empire and great refinement in Latin literature.
American Heritage
Of or characteristic of Augustus Caesar, his reign (27 b.c.- a.d. 14), or its Latin literature.
Webster's New World
Of or relating to English literature during the early 1700s, characterized by refinement of style.
American Heritage
Designating or characteristic of any age like Augustus' age, esp. in having standards or tastes that are classic, as the period of Pope and Addison in English literature.
Webster's New World

Pertaining to the times of the Roman emperor Augustus (63 BCE - 14 CE).

Wiktionary
noun
A person writing in an Augustan age.
Webster's New World

Origin of Augustan

  • From Augustus, a Roman emperor who ruled a period of peace and prosperity known as the Pax Romana or Pax Augusta

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Augustan Sentence Examples

  • The authors of the Augustan age are unduly depreciated, while Ennius, Plautus, Laberius, Sallust are held up as models of imitation.

  • He now " plunged into the ocean of the Augustan history," and " with pen almost always in hand," pored over all the original records, Greek and Latin, between Trajan and the last of the Western Caesars.

  • The boundaries of the original third Augustan region had by that time become somewhat altered, Metapontum belonging to Calabria, and Salernum and the territory of the Picentini to the third region instead of the first (Campania).

  • His character was hardening, and he deliberately adopted the most barbarous expedients for converting the Augustan Poles to his views.

  • In the Augustan age the population of Alexandria was estimated at 300,000 free folk, in addition to an immense number of slaves.

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