Inscriptions on the Fasti Triumphales come to a seemingly abrupt full-stop in 19 BCE, by which time the triumph had been absorbed into the Augustan Imperial cult system in which only the emperor-the supreme Imperator ( or very occasionally, a close relative who had glorified the Imperial gens )-would be accorded such a supreme honour.

The Augustan History claims that he also married a man named Zoticus, an athlete from Smyrna, in a public ceremony at Rome.

In the area of the Convent Pasture, the excavations revealed, under a large domus from the Augustan era, the presence of an exceptional public monument, which was at the time unique for that period in Gaul: a Roman basilica.

At the outset of the Augustan age, essays were still primarily imitative, novels were few and still dominated by the Romance, and prose was a rarely used format for satire, but, by the end of the period, the English essay was a fully formed periodical feature, novels surpassed drama as entertainment and as an outlet for serious authors, and prose was serving every conceivable function in public discourse.

Legio octava Augusta ( Eighth Augustan Legion ) was a Roman legion created by Pompey in 65 BC, along with the 6th, 7th & 9th, and continuing in service to Rome for at least 400 years thereafter.

Although it was an accepted part of Hadrian's personal history that he was born in Spain, his biography in Augustan History states that he was born in Rome on 24 January AD 76, of a family originally Italian, but which had lived in Spain for many generations.

In an apocryphal anecdote in the collection of imperial biographies called the Augustan History, the spot on which he had built an oratory was claimed by tavern keepers, but Alexander Severus decided that the worship of any god was better than a tavern, hence the structure's name.

Asti become an important city of the Augustan Regio IX, favoured by its strategic position on the Tanaro river and on the Via Fulvia, which linked Derthona ( Tortona ) to Augusta Taurinorum ( Turin ).

The Augustan reforms of Rome's urban neighbourhoods ( vici ) recognised the ancient road between the two heights ( the modern Viale Aventino ) as a common boundary between the new Regio XIII, which absorbed Aventinus Maior, and the part of Regio XII known as Aventinus Minor.

This is what is called the Augustan Age, which was perhaps of all others the most brilliant, a period at which it should seem as if the greatest men, and the immortal authors, had met together upon the earth, in order to write the Latin language in its utmost purity and perfection.

In English, the term " Neoclassicism " is used primarily of the visual arts ; the similar movement in English literature, which began considerably earlier, is called Augustan literature, which had been dominant for several decades, and was beginning to decline, by the time Neoclassicism in the visual arts became fashionable.

His attempt to restore an Augustan form of principate, with himself as primus inter pares ended with his death in 363 in Persia, after which his reforms were reversed or abandoned.

Means, which was published in 1973 by the Augustan Reprint Society, Los Angeles.

This was a genre which he practically reinvented, drawing upon Roman examples of the Augustan Age.

Keats varies this form by the employment of Augustan inversion, sometimes using a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable at the beginning of a line, including the first: " Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness "; and employing spondees in which two stressed syllables are placed together at the beginnings of both the following stanzas, adding emphasis to the questions that are asked: " Who hath not seen thee ...", " Where are the songs ...?

The surveyor, Nonius Datus, wrote about his encounters with the Third Augustan Legion and how he had carefully surveyed, taken the measures of all the mountains and mapped out the axis for which the tunnel would need to be excavated.

The manner in which Tacfarinas led his rebellions was of particular concern to the Third Augustan Legion.

More than a century of criticism, argument and counter-argument have argued that the Augustan History is not a reliable source for the period that it purports to cover, and it is especially unreliable in that era for which it is one of the very few written sources, the years 253 – 284.

In the Augustan age four hundred and twenty-five works bore his name, of which more than two hundred were allowed as genuine by the critics.

Had Hitler achieved all his political and military aims and had his successors consolidated and perhaps even expanded his territorial gains, the art and architecture of Germany would undoubtedly have reflected the sentiment that pervaded much of Rome's art in the Augustan period, that is, a confidently assumed right to dominate others, which Virgil elegantly, if brutally, expressed in Aeneid 6. 851-53: " Remember, Roman, to exercise dominion over nations.

The Augustan poet Horace speaks of the water ( lympha ) of Feronia, in which " we bathe our face and hands.

A notice in Harper's New Monthly Magazine of the publication of Andrews ' Freund's Lexicon of the Latin Language in 1850 mentions that the dictionary divides Latin into ante-classic, quite classic, Ciceronian, Augustan, post-Augustan and post-classic or late Latin, which indicates the term already was in professional use by English classicists in the early 19th century.

Jupiter, Juno and Minerva were honored in temples known as Capitolia, which were built on hills and other prominent areas in many cities in Italy and the provinces, particularly during the Augustan and Julio-Claudian periods.

Clarke's book is identified as distinctively English not only because of its style but also because of its themes of " vigorous common sense ", " firm ethical fiber ", " serene reason and self-confidence ", which are drawn from its Augustan literary roots.

The temple to Ares in the agora of Athens that Pausanias saw in the second century AD had only been moved and rededicated there during the time of Augustus ; in essence it was a Roman temple to the Augustan Mars Ultor.

By the first century BC brass was available in sufficient supply to use as coinage in Phrygia and Bithynia, and after the Augustan currency reform of 23 BC it was also used to make Roman dupondii and sestertii.

The verse form itself then was little changed as the quality of a poet's hexameter was judged against the standard set by Virgil and the other Augustan poets, a respect for literary precedent encompassed by the Latin word aemulatio.

The earliest written records of Christian images treated like icons in a pagan or Gnostic context are offered by the 4th-century Christian Aelius Lampridius in the Life of Alexander Severus ( xxix ) that was part of the Augustan History.

October 8 BC ) was an ally, friend and political advisor to Octavian ( who was to become the first Emperor of Rome as Caesar Augustus ) as well as an important patron for the new generation of Augustan poets.

According to the Augustan History, it was the future Emperor Hadrian who brought word to Trajan of his adoption.

Publius Vergilius Maro ( October 15, 70 BC – September 21, 19 BC ), usually called Virgil or Vergil in English, was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period.

The De rerum natura was a considerable influence on the Augustan poets, particularly Virgil ( in his Aeneid and Georgics, and to a lesser extent in his Eclogues ) and Horace.

This theme reflects Augustan moral reforms and was perhaps intended to set an example for Roman youth.

Eventually the Roman emperor Caligula abandoned the Augustan wariness toward what was described as oriental cults, and it was in his reign that the Isiac festival of the Navigium Isidis was established in Rome.

Tiberius was forced to stop his campaign against Maroboduus and recognise him as king and to send his eight legions ( VIII Augustan, XV Apollonian, XX Victorious Valerian, XXI Predator, XIII Twin, XIV Twin, XVI Gallic and an unknown unit ) to crush the rebellion in the Balkans.

According to the Augustan History, an imperial declaration of hers in 269 was sent to the citizens of Alexandria, Egypt, describing the city as “ my ancestral city ”.

* Osinia Agrippina, a noble woman who descended from Julius or Iulius Capitolinus, who was one of the biographers of the Augustan History

As part of the Roman Empire, it was a comfortable period for Campania who, with Latium, formed the most important region of the Augustan divisions of Italia ; Campania was one of the main areas for grainery.

The Roses of Heliogabalus is a famous painting of 1888 by the Anglo-Dutch academician Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, at present in private hands, and based on a probably invented episode in the life of the Roman emperor Elagabalus, also known as Heliogabalus, ( 204 – 222 ), taken from the Augustan History.

In Latin texts, on the other hand, Joseph Fontenrose declared himself unable to find any conflation of Apollo with Sol among the Augustan poets of the 1st century, not even in the conjurations of Aeneas and Latinus in Aeneid XII ( 161 – 215 ).

Fragments of similar date and style from Rome and provincial Italy appear to be modeled on the Augustan Fasti, and fill some of its gaps.

Surviving accounts of the period, including Zosimus ' New History, Zonaras ' Epitome of the Histories, George Syncellus ' Selection of Chronography, and the Augustan History, rely principally on the lost history of the Athenian Dexippus.

Lemures is the more common literary term but even this is rare: it is used by the Augustan poets Horace and Ovid, the latter in his Fasti, the six-book calendar poem on Roman holidays and religious customs.

Additional arguments against can be found in Stern, " Nero's Father and Other Romantic Figures on the Ara Pacis Augustae, CAMWS 2003 ; Syme, " Neglected Children on the Ara Pacis ," AJA 88 ( 1984 ), The Augustan Aristocracy ( 1985 ) 142, 155, 166-67.

At Diocletian's behest, Maximian abdicated on May 1, 305, gave the Augustan office to Constantius, and retired to southern Italy.

Of the several figures on the Augustan Ara Pacis, one doubles as a portrait of the Empress Livia, who wears Ceres ' corona spicea.

The Augustan poet Ovid conflates her with another archaic goddess named Carna, whose festival was celebrated on the Kalends of June and for whom he gives the alternative name Cranê or Cranea, a nymph.

" The role of women on this occasion was consonant with the Augustan emphasis on families as necessary to the vitality of the Roman state.

Towards the end of the 18th century, poetry began to move away from the strict Augustan ideals and a new emphasis on sentiment and the feelings of the poet.

* Various Conjectures on the Perception, Motion, and Generation of Ideas, with an Introduction and notes by Martin Kallich ( Augustan Reprint Society, Publication no.

" An Augustan Reply to Locke: Bolingbroke on Natural Law and the Origin of Government ," Political Science Quarterly Vol.

Three goddesses on a panel of the Augustan Ara Pacis, consecrated in 9 BC ; the iconography is open to multiple interpretations

The Augustan Lex Julia maritandis ordinaribus compelled marriage upon men and women within specified age ranges, and remarriage on the divorced and bereaved within certain time limits.

In 1620 Salmasius published Casaubon's notes on the Augustan History, with copious additions of his own.

Vasari relates that Nicola Pisano constantly studied these Roman remains and the Roman sculptures from Augustan times seem to have marked a deep impression on him.