People who lived in times long past (especially during the historical period before the fall of the Roman Empire in western Europe)
Noun
people who lived in times long past (especially during the historical period before the fall of the Roman Empire in western Europe)
Usage Examples
Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.
Medical research in the twentieth century mostly takes place in the lab in the Renaissance, though, researchers went first and foremost to the library to see what the ancients had said.
From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become from what the ancients did, what poetry must be.
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Other Usage ExamplesNothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet especially not against their poetry.
In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature than the ancients ascribed to their gods.
I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients.
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