1. Ostian - Noun
2. Ostian - Adjective
Ostian (comparative more Ostian, superlative most Ostian)
Of the ancient Italian town of Ostia.
Ostian (plural Ostians)
A native or inhabitant of Ostia.
Paul then, in the fourteenth year of Nero on the same day with Peter, was beheaded at Rome for Christ's sake and was buried in the Ostian way, the twenty-seventh year after our Lord's passion. Jerome
A 2nd-century terracotta relief from the Ostian tomb of Scribonia Attice, wife of physician-surgeon M. Ulpius Amerimnus, details a childbirth scene. Source: Internet
Stambaugh, The Ancient Roman City, p. 144. An Ostian taberna for eating and drinking; the faded painting over the counter pictured eggs, olives, fruit and radishes Holleran, Shopping in Ancient Rome, pp. 136–137. Source: Internet