Ostian

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1. Ostian - Noun

2. Ostian - Adjective

Meaning

Ostian (comparative more Ostian, superlative most Ostian)

Of the ancient Italian town of Ostia.

Ostian (plural Ostians)

A native or inhabitant of Ostia.

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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

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