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

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

Like Julius Caesar, Augustus was deified, and a priestly college of Augustales, chosen from the senatorial order was founded to maintain his worship in Rome.

From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Boak, Arthur Edward Romilly

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

The Augustales shared with the members of the Curia the heavy burdens which public sentiment then imposed upon the rich.

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