Flavianadj.n.

1598 R. Grenewey tr. Tacitus Annales iii. xi. 123 The captaines also of the Flauian side helped.

1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. iii. 76 Such a prince [sc. Vespasian] consulted his true interest by the association of a son, whose more splendid..character might turn the public attention, from the obscure origin, to the future glories of the Flavian house.

1796 Encycl. Brit. (Dublin ed.) XVI. 425/1 [Domitian] distributed great rewards; sitting as president himself, adorned with a purple robe and crown, with the priests of Jupiter and the college of Flavian priests about him.

1867 C. M. Yonge Pupils of St. John viii. 139 Beyond this colossus lay the great Flavian Amphitheatre, called from it the Colosseum.

1872 Church & Brodribb Pliny's Lett. i. 4 With its close, which witnessed the establishment of the Flavian dynasty, began a more hopeful era.

1882 Encycl. Brit. XIV. 337/2 The epic poets of the Flavian age present a striking contrast to the writers of the Claudian period.

1900 Daily News 9 July 6/3 Another historical work dealing with the Flavian and Antonine periods.

1903 Jewish Encycl. V. 406/2 An early branch of the imperial Flavian house was at one time inclined toward Judaism and Christianity.

1959 Chambers's Encycl. XI. 787 Vespasian established the Flavian dynasty.

1956 M. Hadas Hist. Rome (1958) v. 93 (heading) Flavians and Antonines.

1956 M. J. Costelloe tr. L. Hertling & E. Kirschbaum Rom. Catacombs (1960) ii. 36 The domestic tragedy within the imperial household of the Flavians..reached its climax in the assassination of the emperor.