silver age
Classical Mythology. the second of the four ages of humankind, inferior to the golden age but superior to the bronze age that followed: characterized by an increase of impiety and of human weakness.
(usually initial capital letters) a period in Latin literature, a.d. c14–138, following the Augustan Age: the second phase of Classical Latin.: Compare golden age (def. 3).
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How to use silver age in a sentence
When Jove had driven his father into banishment, the silver age began, according to the poets.
Dryden's Works (13 of 18): Translations; Pastorals | John DrydenAll those who lived in the silver age had intelligence grounded in spiritual truths, and thence in natural truths, 76.
The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love | Emanuel SwedenborgIn the silver age, Inspiration is still Grace, but just beginning to be complicated by human artifice.
Letters of a Soldier | AnonymousThis was followed by the silver age, with a race inferior in form and disposition.
Charles Sumner; his complete works; Volume 2 (of 20) | Charles SumnerNo doubt in its silver age, the century's beginning, many a brilliant deed was done.
A Book of Scoundrels | Charles Whibley
British Dictionary definitions for silver age
(in Greek and Roman mythology) the second of the world's major epochs, inferior to the preceding golden age and characterized by opulence and irreligion
the postclassical period of Latin literature, occupying the early part of the Roman imperial era, characterized by an overindulgence in elegance for its own sake and empty scholarly rhetoric
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