silver agen.

a. The second age of the world, according to the Greek and Roman poets, inferior in simplicity and happiness to the first or golden age.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > relative time > the past > historical period > [noun] > of Greek antiquity or mythology

antiquityc1375

golden age?a1439

silver age1565

heroic age1654

heroic times1654

brazen age1841

mundane era1892

1565 A. Golding tr. Ovid Fyrst Fower Bks. Metamorphosis i. f. 2^v When..the Syluer Age came in more somewhat base then golde.

1621 G. Sandys tr. Ovid First Five Bks. Metamorphosis i. 5 After Saturne was throwne downe to Hell, Ioue rul'd; and then the Siluer Age befell.

1710 W. King Heathen Gods & Heroes (1722) x. 30 In Comparison of the next succeeding and the present Age,..this of Jupiter had no lower Character than that of the Silver Age.

1797 Encycl. Brit. I. 234/2 The silver age commenced when men began to deviate from the paths of virtue.

1860 Chambers's Encycl. I. 76/1 Hesiod mentions five Ages—the golden, simple and patriarchal; the silver, voluptuous and godless.

b. The period of Latin literature from the death of Augustus to that of Hadrian. Also attributive.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary world > [noun] > literary period > specific Latin

golden age1561

silver age1736

1736 R. Ainsworth Thes. Linguæ Latinæ I. p. xxx Tacitus, Pliny the historian, Suetonius, and some other prose writers, flourished in the silver age.

1826 C. Butler Life Grotius 31 The language of the Pandects is of the silver age.

1859 R. C. Trench Sel. Gloss. 6 While ‘animosus’ belongs to the best period of Latin literature, ‘animositas’ is of quite the later silver age.

1863 J. Conington tr. Virgil Æneid II. iii. 184 (note) 205/1 The poets and silver-age prose authors.

1929 R. Hughes High Wind in Jamaica 66 A silver-age conception.

c. A period of Russian literature and art at the beginning of the twentieth century, considered in comparison with the golden era of the mid-nineteenth century.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary world > [noun] > literary period > specific Russian

silver age1965

1965 P. Benno in Hayward & Crawley Soviet Lit. in Sixties 179 The works of the generation of Russia's ‘Silver Age’ in the first three decades of the present century.

1974 T. P. Whitney tr. A. Solzhenitsyn Gulag Archipel. I. i. ix. 336 Even though the Silver Age of art, four State Dumas, three wars, and three revolutions had come and gone, all Moscow drank Oldenborger's water.

1976 Times Lit. Suppl. 16 Apr. 450/3 The poet's life in pre-war St Petersburg... She grew up in the capital at a time when its artistic life was at its most febrile and brilliant, the height of the ‘Silver Age’, not only in poetry but in painting, ballet, music.

2. An age marked by the extensive production or use of silver.

ΚΠ

1740 Earl of Sandwich tr. A. A. Barba Metals, Mines & Min. (ed. 2) 111 There was very little use or consumption of Quicksilver before the beginning of this new Silver Age of the World.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online September 2018).

单词	silver age
释义	silver agen. 1. a. The second age of the world, according to the Greek and Roman poets, inferior in simplicity and happiness to the first or golden age. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > historical period > [noun] > of Greek antiquity or mythology antiquityc1375 golden age?a1439 silver age1565 heroic age1654 heroic times1654 brazen age1841 mundane era1892 1565 A. Golding tr. Ovid Fyrst Fower Bks. Metamorphosis i. f. 2^v When..the Syluer Age came in more somewhat base then golde. 1621 G. Sandys tr. Ovid First Five Bks. Metamorphosis i. 5 After Saturne was throwne downe to Hell, Ioue rul'd; and then the Siluer Age befell. 1710 W. King Heathen Gods & Heroes (1722) x. 30 In Comparison of the next succeeding and the present Age,..this of Jupiter had no lower Character than that of the Silver Age. 1797 Encycl. Brit. I. 234/2 The silver age commenced when men began to deviate from the paths of virtue. 1860 Chambers's Encycl. I. 76/1 Hesiod mentions five Ages—the golden, simple and patriarchal; the silver, voluptuous and godless. b. The period of Latin literature from the death of Augustus to that of Hadrian. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary world > [noun] > literary period > specific Latin golden age1561 silver age1736 1736 R. Ainsworth Thes. Linguæ Latinæ I. p. xxx Tacitus, Pliny the historian, Suetonius, and some other prose writers, flourished in the silver age. 1826 C. Butler Life Grotius 31 The language of the Pandects is of the silver age. 1859 R. C. Trench Sel. Gloss. 6 While ‘animosus’ belongs to the best period of Latin literature, ‘animositas’ is of quite the later silver age. 1863 J. Conington tr. Virgil Æneid II. iii. 184 (note) 205/1 The poets and silver-age prose authors. 1929 R. Hughes High Wind in Jamaica 66 A silver-age conception. c. A period of Russian literature and art at the beginning of the twentieth century, considered in comparison with the golden era of the mid-nineteenth century. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary world > [noun] > literary period > specific Russian silver age1965 1965 P. Benno in Hayward & Crawley Soviet Lit. in Sixties 179 The works of the generation of Russia's ‘Silver Age’ in the first three decades of the present century. 1974 T. P. Whitney tr. A. Solzhenitsyn Gulag Archipel. I. i. ix. 336 Even though the Silver Age of art, four State Dumas, three wars, and three revolutions had come and gone, all Moscow drank Oldenborger's water. 1976 Times Lit. Suppl. 16 Apr. 450/3 The poet's life in pre-war St Petersburg... She grew up in the capital at a time when its artistic life was at its most febrile and brilliant, the height of the ‘Silver Age’, not only in poetry but in painting, ballet, music. 2. An age marked by the extensive production or use of silver. ΚΠ 1740 Earl of Sandwich tr. A. A. Barba Metals, Mines & Min. (ed. 2) 111 There was very little use or consumption of Quicksilver before the beginning of this new Silver Age of the World. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.1565
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