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Definition: AUGUSTAN AGE |
AUGUSTAN AGE1. 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. |
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Literature | Augustan Age The best literary period of a nation; so called from Augustus, the Emperor of Rome, the most palmy time of Latin literature. Horace, Ovid, Propertius, Tibullus, Virgil, etc., flourished in this reign. Augustan Age of English Literature. Beginning in the reign of Elizabeth and ending in that of James I. For list of authors, see Historic Note-book, p. 59. Augustan Age of China, France, Germany, Hindustan, Portugal, etc., see ditto. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | We know that among the Romans, about the Augustan age especially, the condition of their slaves was much more deplorable than that of the blacks on the continent of America. |
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Expression using "AUGUSTAN AGE": the augustan age. Additional references. | |
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| Language | Translations for "AUGUSTAN AGE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | epokë e letërsisë neoklasike në angli. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | класическа епоха. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | augustus császár kora (the augustan age). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | augustanay ageay ápice da cultura de um país. (various references) век августа. (various references) avgustova era. (various references) aügüst devri, edebiyatın altın çağı. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-a-e-g-g-n-s-t-u-u" | |
-4 letters: agnates, anatase, gangues, gateaus, guanase, nuggets. | |
-5 letters: agates, agents, agnate, ansate, august, gangue, gateau, gauges, nausea, nugget, satang, teguas, ungues, unseat. | |
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