Augustales
Americanplural noun
Etymology
Origin of Augustales
Example Sentences
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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
The Augustales referred to in the latter passage were a higher class of Exceptores.
From The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator by Hodgkin, Thomas
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
The origin of the order of the Augustales was long a subject of debate.
From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Dill, Samuel
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