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Au·gus·tan (ô gus′tən)
adjective
- of or characteristic of Augustus Caesar, his reign (27 - 14), or its Latin literature
- designating or characteristic of any age like Augustus' age, esp. in having standards or tastes that are classic, as the period of Pope and Addison in English literature
noun
a person writing in an Augustan age
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