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Augustan

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Au·gus·tan  (ô-gstn)
adj.
1. Of or characteristic of Augustus or his reign or times.
2. Of or characteristic of English literature during the early 18th century.
Au·gustan n.
Augustan
Adjective
1. of the Roman emperor Augustus Caesar or the poets writing during his reign
2. of any literary period noted for refinement and classicism
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Adj.1.Augustan - relating to or characteristic of the times of the Roman Emperor Augustus; "the Augustan Age"


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A FARMER of the Augustan age Perused in Virgil's golden page, The story of the secret won From Proteus by Cyrene's son How the dank sea-god sowed the swain Means to restore his hives again More briefly, how a slaughtered bull Breeds honey by the bellyful.
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The writers of the reigns of Anne and George I called their period the Augustan Age, because they flattered themselves that with them English life and literature had reached a culminating period of civilization and elegance corresponding to that which existed at Rome under the Emperor Augustus.
A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington View in context
What went on in the office interested me as much as the quarrels of the Augustan age of English letters, and I made much more record of it in the crude and shapeless diary which I kept, partly in verse and partly in prose, but always of a distinctly lower literary kind than that I was trying otherwise to write.
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