Trajanic

English

Etymology

From Trajan +‎ -ic.

Adjective

Trajanic (comparative more Trajanic, superlative most Trajanic)

1. Of or relating to Trajan (53–117 AD), emperor of Ancient Rome from 98 AD until his death.

   Synonym: Trajanian

   • 1889, Wilhelm Lübke, Text to Monuments of Art, Showing Its Development and Progress from the Earliest Artistic Attempts to the Present Period, New York, N.Y.: Stroefer, page 122:

     The column, erected in honor of this emperor after his victory over the Marcomannos, shows, in spiral form, splendid reliefs, which remind us of Trajanic art remains.

   • 2000, I[ain] M. Ferris, Enemies of Rome: Barbarians Through Roman Eyes, The History Press, published 2013, →ISBN:

     The siting of the Trajanic victory monument here was obviously a way of declaring that the defeats of the past reign had been avenged and that the military honour of Rome had been reclaimed.

   • 2013, G[regory] O[wen] Hutchinson, Greek to Latin: Frameworks and Contexts for Intertextuality, Oxford, Oxon: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 79:

     At Tauromenium, the Trajanic or Hadrianic reconstruction of the theatre was accompanied by the building of an odeion for performance on a smaller scale.