Augustales

American  

[aw-guh-stey-leez] / ˌɔ gəˈsteɪ liz /

plural noun

1. local officials, usually freedmen, appointed in various towns for the worship of deified emperors.

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Etymology

Origin of Augustales

< Latin, plural of Augustālis. See Augustus, -al ¹

Example Sentences

The young man was found dead in a small room near the entrance to the Hall of the Augustales, a civic order of freedmen, a bit like a freemason lodge.

From Salon • Mar. 4, 2025

After the local aristocracy of curial rank came, in order of social precedence, members of the knightly class and the order of the Augustales.

From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Dill, Samuel

A very considerable item of revenue must have been found in the fee which all decurions, Augustales, and magistrates paid on entering on their office or dignity.

From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Dill, Samuel

It is significant that the patrons were, in very many cases, Seviri and Augustales, a body which in the provinces, as we have seen, was generally composed of new men of the freedman class.

From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Dill, Samuel

On the distinction between the Augustales and the Seviri Aug. v.

From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Dill, Samuel