Augustalis

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

Augustālis, e, adj.,

relating to the emperor Augustus , of Augustus , Augustan : ludi (or AVGVSTALIA in the Calendar in Inscr. Orell. II. p. 411), celebrated on the 12th of October , in commemoration of the day on which Augustus returned to Rome , Tac. A. 1, 15 and 54: sodales, a college of twenty-five priests instituted in honor of Augustus , after his death , by Tiberius , Tac. A. 1, 54; 3, 64; Suet. Claud. 6; id. Galb. 8; called also sacerdotes, Tac. A. 2, 83; and absol. : Augustales, id. ib. 3, 64; id. H. 2, 95; Inscr. Orell. 610. In the municipal cities and colonies there were such colleges of priests of Augustus, composed of six men, called Seviri Augustales, Petr. 30, 2; cf. Inscr. Orell. II. p. 197 sq.— The prefect of Egypt was called Praefectus Augustalis, Dig. 1, 17; cf. Tac. A. 12, 60; and: vir spectabilis Augustalis, Cod. 10, 31, 57 and 59.— Augustales milites, those added by Augustus , Veg. Mil. 2, 7.