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   Augustan

   /ɔːˈɡʌst(ə)n/

   adjective

   • 1. connected with or occurring during the reign of the Roman emperor Augustus: "a Roman villa of the Augustan period"
   • ▪ relating to or denoting Latin literature of the reign of Augustus, including the works of Virgil, Horace, Ovid, and Livy.
   • ▪ relating to or denoting 17th- and 18th-century English literature of a style considered refined and classical, including the works of Pope, Addison, and Swift: "poets of the Augustan age"

   noun

   • 1. a writer of the (Latin or English) Augustan period or style.

   Word Origin from Latin Augustanus ‘relating to Augustus’ (see Augustus).

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