Hadrianicadj.
/heɪdrɪˈanɪk/ Of or pertaining to the Roman emperor Hadrian ( a.d. 76–138).
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Constantinian1641
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pre-classical1860
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preclassic1869
Hadrianic1886
Protogeometric1914
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Severan1918
1886 W. P. Dickson tr. T. Mommsen Provinces Rom. Empire I. 189 In the time of Diocletian we find the district between the two walls evacuated, but the Hadrianic wall occupied still as before.
1897 Trans. Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archæol. Soc. 14 419 Hadrianic inscriptions occur at Chesterholm and Greatchesters.
1911 Trans. Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archæol. Soc. New Ser. 11 390 Vindolana and Magna, although occupied in Hadrianic times as Wall stations, differ from the others in Northumberland.
1921 Jrnl. Rom. Stud. 11 51 The idea of a single camp extending from sea to sea is a bold flight of imagination... It became..a cardinal feature in the ‘Hadrianic Theory’ of the nineteenth century.
1935 Burlington Mag. Feb. 97/1 Hadrianic art was certainly Greek in its nature.
1962 Guardian 11 July 5/7 The rampart and ditch of a small Hadrianic fort.
1972 Daily Tel. 5 Dec. 12/5 Coins and Antiquities gave £6,800 for a Hadrianic/Early Antonine period Roman marble figure called Paris.
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