—adj.
1 connected with, occurring during, or influenced by the reign of the Roman emperor Augustus, esp. as an outstanding period of Latin literature.
2 (of a nation's literature) refined and classical in style (in England of the literature of the 17th-18th c.).
—n. a writer of the Augustan age of any literature.
Etymology: L Augustanus f. Augustus
Useful english dictionary. 2012.