Crossword clues for augustan
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Augustan \Au*gus"tan\, a. [L. Augustanus, fr. Augustus. See August, n.]
Of or pertaining to Augustus C[ae]sar or to his times.
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Of or pertaining to the town of Augsburg.
Augustan age of any national literature, the period of its highest state of purity and refinement; -- so called because the reign of Augustus C[ae]sar was the golden age of Roman literature. Thus the reign of Louis XIV. (b. 1638) has been called the Augustan age of French literature, and that of Queen Anne (b. 1664) the Augustan age of English literature.
Augustan confession (Eccl. Hist.), or confession of Augsburg, drawn up at Augusta Vindelicorum, or Augsburg, by Luther and Melanchthon, in 1530, contains the principles of the Protestants, and their reasons for separating from the Roman Catholic church.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1640s, from Latin Augustanus, "pertaining to Augustus (Caesar)," whose reign was connected with "the palmy period of Latin literature" [OED]; hence, "period of purity and refinement in any national literature" (1712).
Wiktionary
a. 1 Pertaining to the times of the Roman emperor Augustus (63 (B.C.E.) - 14 (C.E.)). 2 Pertaining to the Roman poetic literature during this time. 3 Pertaining to the period of English literature during the first half of the 18th century, known for satire and political themes.
Wikipedia
Augustan is an adjective which means pertaining to Augustus or Augusta. It can refer to:
- Augustan Age (disambiguation)
- Augustan literature (ancient Rome)
- Augustan prose
- Augustan poetry
- Augustan Reprint Society
- Augustan literature
- Augustan History
- Augustan drama
- Augustan Society
- A current or former resident of Augusta, Georgia
See also
- Legio I Augusta or First Augustan Legion
- Legio II Augusta or Second Augustan Legion
- Legio III Augusta or Third Augustan Legion
- Gemma Augustea or Augustan jewel
- Arch of Augustus (disambiguation) or Augustan Arch
- Closed couplet or Augustan couplet
- Heroic couplet or Augustan heroic couplet
- Ara Pacis or Altar of Augustan Peace
- Augsburg Confession or Augustan Confession
Usage examples of "augustan".
The two finest kinds of papyrus were named the Augustan and the Livian.
The Augustan Age, indeed, forms one of the most remarkable periods in the history of the human intellect.
The language was no longer pure, and neither prose nor poetry retained the harmony and elegance of the Augustan age.
Between Lucilius and the poets of the Augustan age lived Lucretius and Catullus, two of the greatest--perhaps the greatest--of all the Roman poets.
Among the poets of the Augustan age Virgil and Horace stand forth pre-eminent.
Three celebrated Elegiac poets--Tibullus, Propertius, and Ovid--also belong to the Augustan age.
Of the prose writers of the Augustan age the most distinguished was the historian TITUS LIVIUS, usually called LIVY.
Cicero, the herald of the Augustan consciousness, had followed Panaitios in Hellenizing and humanizing the Stoa.
Caerleon means the fort of the legions, and for about three hundred years the Second Augustan Legion was quartered there, and made a tiny Rome of the place, with amphitheatre, baths, temples, and everything necessary for the comfort of a Roman-Briton.
There would be the Februarian man, the Martian man, the Augustan man, and so forth.
One estimate is that not more than 5 per cent of the population in classical Athens was literate in the sense that we use the word today, and not more than 10 per cent in Augustan Rome.
When it is considered that many amateur writers have been discouraged from becoming competitors, and that few, if any, of the professional authors can afford to write for nothing, and, of course, have not been candidates for the honorary prize at Drury Lane, we may confidently pronounce that, as far as regards NUMBER, the present is undoubtedly the Augustan age of English poetry.
Romans imitated that distinctive attitude, pretending to Augustan calmness that had actually ceased to be a part of public life.
Victorian richness and lushness of sentiment which was alien to them, but he was also a champion of such Augustan poets as Dryden and Crabbe at a period when their merits were often under-valued.
We are guided back to admiration of the measure and moderation and shapeliness of the Augustan age.