Meanings
- historicalAn ancient city in Roman Spain, now Zaragoza.
“[…] We are off to Caesaraugusta at first light,” Paul explained. “I fear we were not allowed much time in the province to conduct our business.”
2017, Jim Tallmon, Of Rhetoric and Redemption in La Rioja, →ISBN, page 513 more examples
Shortly after, a provincial council in Caesaraugusta stressed that a close watch should be kept on whether former Arian clerics were adhering to Catholic structures.
2020, Santiago Castellanos, The Visigothic Kingdom in Iberia: Construction and Invention, →ISBN, page 100The legend is that after his early visit up the Iber and contact in Caesaraugusta by the Virgin Mary, James returned to Jerusalem where he was executed in 44 AD.
2022, Lawrence J. McCrank, The Tarragona Vortex: Conquest and Reconquest, Liberation and Restoration of Christendom in the Frontiers of Aragó-Catalunya, →ISBN, page 494In Pelosi’s view, it is entirely plausible that Prudentius wrote the poem and circulated it in Caesaraugusta, where local readers, possibly clerics, “reminded the poet that he had forgotten these two martyrs,” which impelled them to promptly add them to the poem.
2023, Diane Shane Fruchtman, Living Martyrs in Late Antiquity and Beyond: Surviving Martyrdom, →ISBN
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- LatinCaesaraugusta
- EnglishCaesaraugusta
Directly borrowed from Latin Caesaraugusta. Doublet of Zaragoza.
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