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AUGUSTALIA

Volume 3 · 64 words · 1815 Edition

a festival instituted by the Romans in honour of Augustus Caesar, on his return to Rome, after having settled peace in Sicily, Greece, Syria, Asia, and Parthia; on which occasion they likewise built an altar to him, inscribed Fortuna reduci.

AUGUSTALIS PRÆFECTUS, a title peculiar to a Roman magistrate who governed Egypt, with a power much like that of a proconsul in other provinces.