Augustan

How To Use Augustan In A Sentence

• The refortified walls were often the ancient structures (sometimes, indeed, pre-Augustan); but if these were either absent or totally unserviceable, new walls might be built from scratch.
• The imitations imply knowledge of imported origins and, in fact, the Divari tombs did contain Augustan-period beakers of Italian thin-walled ware.
• The well-tried Roman policy of divide and rule had been the basis of Augustan diplomacy and continued during the conquest.
• ``Calvin has become a client of Haladay Genealogical Services, and a member of the Augustan Society. THE MOAT AROUND MURCHESON'S EYE
• But he would be the alley-fighter who could argue over modern philosophy and quote the poets of the Augustan age.
• the Augustan Age
• The ancient mythology here seems revived; the naiades are placed on the borders of rivers, the nymphs in woods worthy of them, the tombs beneath Elysian shades, and the statue of Esculapius in the middle of an isle, while that of Venus appears to rise out of the waters: Ovid and Virgil might walk in this enchanting spot, and still believe themselves in the Augustan age. Corinne, Volume 1 (of 2) Or Italy
• These were demonstrably built in two phases, one Augustan and the other Severan, since they are very different in style and construction: the excavator estimated that the original structure had places for at most six hundred people.
• It is very characteristic of the Hellenistic period, but shows evidence of an Augustan remodelling.
• [156] [Footnote 152: See his life in the Augustan History.] [Footnote 153: There is still extant a very pretty Epithalamium, composed by Gallienus for the nuptials of his nephews: -- "Ite ait, O juvenes, pariter sudate medullis Omnibus, inter vos: non murmura vestra columbae, Brachia non hederae, non vincant oscula conchae."] [Footnote 154: He was on the point of giving Plotinus a ruined city of History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1