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  • adjective Of or pertaining to the Roman emperor Antoninus Pius (86-161) or his reign.

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Examples

  • But he was also the visible centre of government, towards whom the hearts of a whole people turned, grateful for fifty years of public happiness -- its good genius, its "Antonine" -- whose fragile person might be foreseen speedily giving way under the trials of military life, with

    Marius the Epicurean — Volume 1 Walter Pater 1866

  • Along the way they skirted the high earthworks that were the remains of the second Roman wall, called the Antonine, now completely overgrown.

    Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles George, Margaret 1987

  • Along the way they skirted the high earthworks that were the remains of the second Roman wall, called the Antonine, now completely overgrown.

    Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles George, Margaret 1987

  • Between them they chose a little French song -- "Chanson d'Antonine" -- and

    The Price She Paid David Graham Phillips 1889

  • Between them they chose a little French song -- ` ` Chanson d'Antonine '' -- and Mrs. Brindley insisted on her playing her own accompaniment.

    The Price She Paid. 1911

  • The same year that Domna was linked to Faustina with the title Mater Castrorum, Severus, in a remarkable piece of chutzpah, adopted himself into the Antonine clan by declaring himself the son of Marcus Aurelius.

    Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010

  • Bowie, “Greek Poetry in the Antonine Age,” in D. A. Russell, ed., Antonine Literature Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990, 62.

    Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010

  • Hello again: I'm back from sabbatical, in which I took an exciting journey through Roman Britain, including walking the route of the Antonine Wall and clambering over hills and fields to find obscure Roman tombs in the trackless wastes of Northumberland.

    Jonathan Miller: I'd rather be at Marks and Spencer than the theatre 2010

  • The new first family visited the same cultural monuments as their Antonine predecessors had, including the Colossus of Memnon, where Domna was able to walk up and read the verses composed by Balbilla to commemorate the visit of Sabina.

    Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010

  • The aim of this cleaning operation was to establish whether in the future this channel can be used to provision the Antonine Nymphaeum with sparkling fresh water.

    Upper Agora: Report 1 « Interactive Dig Sagalassos – City in the Clouds 2009

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