Elagabalian

Gabriele d’Annunzio . . . . the man’s very name has about it something peculiarly suggestive and subtile. And the mind depicted in this “Poema Paradisiaco” is one of those morbid minds, corrupt with all manner of exquisite corruption that flourished in Elagabalian Rome; an intellect bent on all manner of strange emotion . . . on sensations so subtile, so elusive, so poisonously lovely that they can only effect a being in decadence.

1899, The Yale Literary Magazine, page 45

A word of caution seems needed: close watch should be kept for the appearance of modern caprices of the Elagabalian type, for that imbecilic emperor was uncomfortably close to le déluge!

1950, The Classical Journal, page 87

But Jonson wrote The Alchemist at the peak of his talent and of the High Renaissance, when the universe was almost equal to man’s vast appetite, and expanding with it; from which point the true Elagabalian spirit was to decline during the following centuries into the sort of chic diabolism cultivated by J. K. Huysmans and other writers and painters of the fin de siècle.

1974, The Fabulous Ego: Absolute Power in History, page 41

But as the quantity of these coins of Severus Alexander preserved, compared with Elagabal is rather small, we believe that, for reasons of public interest, the authorities of the city of Neapolis were unable to withdraw all the Elagabalian coins.

1982, Schweizer Münzblätter, page 5