purpurati

Updated: May 10, 2025

The mere outward circumstances of the men whose lives they narrated the purpurati Augusti, as one of the authors calls them in a romantically sonorous phrase were indeed of world-wide importance, and among the masses of rubbish of which the memoirs chiefly consist there is included much curious information and striking incident.

J. W. (John William) Mackail - Latin Literature