Augustan

Ovid, who lived in the Augustan Age, tells his life in detail and so does Apollodorus, in the first or second century A.D.

Pope’s Homer read like Homer when it was published, although the idea of reading ancient Greek verse in strict rhymed couplets seems to us a brilliant Augustan period piece.

The Evangelical Church of Augustan Confession, a German-speaking Protestant group, said Tuesday that marriage was clearly defined in civil law.

Apart from the history that Gibbon narrates — one that should be of interest to Americans right now, I’d say — I’m just knocked over by the prose: those fabulous, architectural, Augustan sentences are dazzling.

In the 18th century — the so-called Augustan age of English literature — Virgil was, if anything, even more deeply cherished.