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.
Wikipedia
Augustan Age may refer to
- the period of Roman history when Augustus was the first emperor
- the period of Latin literature associated with the reign of Augustus: see Augustan literature (ancient Rome)
- the early 18th century in British culture, when writers and other intellectuals admired and emulated the original Augustan Age: see Augustan literature and Augustan poetry
Usage examples of "augustan age".
Yet his life might be adverse to the interest or passions of an unworthy father: the same crimes that flowed from the corruption, were more sensibly felt by the humanity, of the Augustan age.
The architect Vitruvius, who flourished in the Augustan age, and whose evidence, on this occasion, has peculiar weight and authority, observes, that the innumerable habitations of the Roman people would have spread themselves far beyond the narrow limits of the city.
Two thousand years he had survived, slipping in and out of the very mainstream of human life without compunction, a great practitioner of the art of being human, carrying with him forever the grace and quiet dignity of the Augustan Age of seemingly invincible Rome, in which he was born.
Oh, to be your age, Miss Sanford, and to see the coming wonders of our Augustan age!
Hanuman was writing at that time in the compact, rather inflexible Latin of the Augustan age, and he wrote with almost no margins in a script hardly thicker than the legs of a millipede.
Dionysius of Halicarnassus, a Romanized Greek rhetorician of the Augustan Age, stated frankly that he wrote his Archæ.