Flavian
Speech parts
1. Flavian - Noun
2. Flavian - Adjective
Meaning
Flavian (not comparable)
of or pertaining to the Flavian Dynasty, between the years 69 and 96 AD
Flavian (plural Flavians)
Someone who lived during the Flavian Dynasty.
Examples
According to Quintilian (93), however, many people in Flavian Rome preferred Lucilius not only to Horace but to all other Latin poets (R.
As Emperor, he saw himself as the new Augustus, an enlightened despot destined to guide the Roman Empire into a new era of Flavian renaissance.
Construction of this building was hastily finished to coincide with the completion of the Flavian Amphitheatre.
His episcopate, begun in 524, had not come to an end in 541; he converted to Catholicism two Visigothic chiefs, Mandrier and Flavian, who became anchorites and martyrs on the peninsula of Mandrier.
By the mediation of St. John Chrysostom and Theophilus of Alexandria an embassy, led by Bishop Acacius of Beroea, was sent to Rome to persuade Siricius to recognize Flavian and to readmit him to communion with the Church.
However, at the time that the Pseudo-Bede wrote, the masculine noun coliseus'' was applied to the statue rather than to what was still known as the Flavian amphitheatre.