Augustan

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During the Augustan period, each legion consisted of 5,400 infantry and 120 cavalry, along with hundreds of specialists such as engineers, arrow-makers, and blacksmiths who allowed the legion to operate independently while traveling.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020

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

From Washington Post • Sep. 12, 2017

British critics in the nineteenth century followed suit, celebrating Shakespeare’s capacious characters and poetic imagination instead of worrying whether his plots fit Aristotelian unities or if his style matched Augustan decorum.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 6, 2015

Mr. Vidal was, at the end of his life, an Augustan figure who believed himself to be the last of a breed, and he was probably right.

From New York Times • Aug. 1, 2012

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

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton