AUSONIUS

(Decimus Magnus Ausonius)ôsōˈnēəs, c.310–c.395, Latin poet and man of letters, b. Bordeaux. He tutored Gratian, who, when he ascended the throne, made Ausonius prefect of Gaul, and finally consul (379). When Gratian died, Ausonius returned to Bordeaux. His work gives a detailed picture of contemporary people and places. Mosella, a description of his journey on the Moselle River, contains his best verse. Among his other works are Parentalia, verse sketches of dead relatives, and Ordo nobilium urbium, a description of 20 leading cities of the Roman world. Ausonius was nominally a Christian, although his works reveal many pagan beliefs.

See H. G. Evelyn-White's Loeb ed. (1968–85); R. P. H. Green, The Works Of Ausonius (1991).

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Ausonius of Bordeaux: Genesis of a Gallic Aristocracy
Book by Hagith Sivan; Routledge, 1993
Subjects: Aristocracy (Social Class)--Gaul--History, Ausonius, Decimus Magnus, Bordeaux (France)--Antiquities, Roman, Bordeaux (France)--In Literature, Gaul--In Literature, Gaul--Intellectual Life, Gaul--Politics And Government, Poets, Latin--France--Biography, Poets, Latin--Homes And Haunts--France--Bordeaux, Romans--France--Bordeaux, Rome--History--Empire, 284-476--Biography
4 M.D. Reeve, The Tilianus of Ausonius, RM 121 (1978), 350-66. 5 Idem, Some Manuscripts of Ausonius, Prometheus 3 (1977), 112-20...Presentation in Late Antiquity. The Example of Ausonius, Illinois Classical Studies 17 (1992...
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Paulinus Noster: Self and Symbols in the Letters of Paulinus of Nola
Book by Catherine Conybeare; Oxford University Press, 2000
Subjects: Church History--Primitive And Early Church, Ca. 30-600, Paulinus--Of Nola, Saint--Ca. 353-431, Self
...at Trout, Paulinus , 15-21. 12 For Ausonius, see Robert A. Kaster, Guardians of...introduction to his edition of The Works of Ausonius (Oxford, 1991). On his relationship...of the friendship between Paulinus and Ausonius is discussed at some length in Chapter...
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Virgil Recomposed: The Mythological and Secular Centos in Antiquity
Book by Scott McGill; Oxford University Press, 2005
Subjects: Centos--History And Criticism, Epic Poetry, Latin--Adaptations--History And Criticism, Mythology, Roman, In Literature, Virgil--Adaptations--History And Criticism, Virgil--Appreciaton--Rome, Virgil--Parodies, Imitations, Etc--History And Criticism
...Princeton University Press, 1953), 83-85. On Ausonius's use of the topos, see Polara, Centoni...periret (praef. 1-2). As Evelyn-White, Ausonius., 1:xxxv n. 1, says, Ausonius ... would have been surprised and annoyed...
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Acta Conventus Neo-Latini Sanctandreani: Proceedings of the Fifth International Congress of Neo-Latin Studies, St. Andrews, 24 August to 1 September 1982
Book by I. D. McFarlane; Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1986
Subjects: Classicism--Congresses, Humanists--Congresses, Latin Philology, Medieval And Modern--Congresses, Learning And Scholarship--History--Congresses, Renaissance--Congresses
...the basis of the earliest editions of Ausonius, of which the first was produced at...such as the Mosella. The popularity of Ausonius is attested also by clear echoes of his...have worked on the text, and a life of Ausonius was included in Crinituss biographies...
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Divine Heiress: The Virgin Mary and the Creation of Christian Constantinople
Book by Vasiliki Limberis; Routledge, 1994
...captivated by the empress as he was. Ausonius wrote his panegyric to emperor Gratian...emperors tutor and had known him since 364. Ausonius wrote the panegyric to thank the emperor...to the rank of consul. Above all else Ausonius concentrates his praises of Gratian for...
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A Nuptial Cento Modeled on That of Decius Magnus Ausonius (310 A.D.-Ca 394. A.D.)
Journal article by David R. Slavitt; New England Review, Vol. 19, 1998
Subjects: Epithalamia
...Cento Modeled on that of Decius Magnus Ausonius (310 A.D.-CA 394. A.D.) Translators...Sarah Taylor Dear Sarah, dear Henry, In Ausonius prefatory letter to his friend Paulus...suggested (i.e., commanded) that Ausonius do one, too, producing a similar work...
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The Pleasures of Restraint: The Mean of Coyness in Cavalier Poetry
Journal article by Joshua Scodel; Criticism, Vol. 38, 1996
Subjects: Celibacy--Portrayals, depictions, etc., English poetry--17th century, Sexual excitement--Portrayals, depictions, etc.
...desire. Randolph translated an epigram by Ausonius, a late Latin, early Christian poet...Randolph was probably attracted to Ausonius poem because, besides the Martial epigram...mean to increasing erotic pleasure. The Ausonius epigram provided rare classical authority...
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"Quand Meme Je Dormirais": Philosophy and Secondary Revision in Descartes
Journal article by Matthew Senior; The Romanic Review, Vol. 84, 1993
Subjects: Descartes, Rene--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Dreams--Influence, Philosophy, French--17th century
...Descartes vocation as a philosopher, Ausonius "Quod vitae sectabor iter?" and...iter?" (X: 183). It is a poem by Ausonius which begins with the question "What...Sagesse." Nai Kai The two poems by Ausonius are also clues to Descartes ambitions...
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The Dreamer's Path: Descartes and the Sixteenth Century
Journal article by Michael H. Keefer; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 49, 1996
Subjects: Descartes, Rene--Influence, Dreams--Influence, Magical thinking--Influence, Philosophers--Influence
...Quod vitae sectabor iter?... Ausonius" ("The dream of November 1619, and in it the seventh poem of Ausonius which begins: What path in life shall...long meditation on that passage of Ausonius: What path in life shall I follow...
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Humanism and Scholasticism in Sixteenth- Century Academe. Five Student Orations from the University of Salamanca [*
Journal article by Katherine Elliot Van Liere; Vol. 53, 2000
Subjects: College students--Addresses, essays, lectures, Orations--16th century, Renaissance--Social aspects, Salamanca, Spain--16th century
...Noctes Atticae); and the fourth-century poe t Ausonius. Of course this does not prove Covarrubias to...Ed. John Carew Rolfe. Cambridge, MA. Ausonius. 1991. The Works of Ausonius. Ed. R. P. H. Green. Oxford. Azcona...
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Leaps of Logic
Magazine article by Jonathan Sale; New Statesman, Vol. 139, May 17, 2010
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Hare (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews
...within the space of a single page, from a wild hares probable survival time of a year, to an epigram by the 4th-century poet Ausonius, to the increasing loss of habitat, to Robinson Crusoe, and finally to the 1972 horror film Night of the Lepus. Most distressing...
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Castle Adamant
Magazine article by Denis Donoghue; New Criterion, Vol. 26, December 2007
Subjects: Authors--Criticism and interpretation, Authors--Works, Axel's Castle (Collection)--Excerpts, Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1920s and 30s (Book)--Criticism and interpretation, Wilson, Edmund (American writer)--Criticism and interpretation, Wilson, Edmund (American writer)--Works, Writers--Criticism and interpretation, Writers--Works
...saying with self-charming archness that "in reading Eliot and Pound, we are sometimes visited by uneasy recollections of Ausonius, in the fourth century, composing Greek-and-Latin macaronics and piecing together poetic mosaics out of verses from Virgil...
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Everyday Life for the Roman Schoolboy
Magazine article by Keith Hopkins; History Today, Vol. 43, October 1993
Subjects: Romans--Social aspects, Rome (Ancient)--Schools
...Corpus Glossariorum Latinorum vol. 3, G. Goetz, ed. Leipzig, 1892 and from new texts published by C. Dionisotti, from |Ausonius Schooldays, Journal of Roman Studies, 72, 1982): Setting Off: I go out of my bedroom with my tutor (paidagogos) and...


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Advice Compiled and Condensed from Actual Sources by Kelly Jane Torrance, Who Composed the Questions
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, July 16, 2008
...little sexist and said it was hard for me to love. - Katherine Heigl Dear Katherine, Nothing more detestable does the Earth produce than an ungrateful person. - Ausonius Photo of the book cover of Life with My Sister Madonna NO CREDIT
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Bordeaux Re-asserts Its Primacy
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), March 5, 2008
Subjects: Wine
...Bordeaux was the wine worlds Big News. Located in southwest France, Bordeaux first made headlines in 379 A.D. when Latin poet Ausonius praised his 100 iugera (about 75 acres) of vines. Today, print media, the Web and blogosphere are crammed with news from...


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Ausonius
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
AUSONIUS (Decimus Magnus Ausonius)oso ne s, c.310 c.395, Latin poet and man of letters...He tutored Gratian, who, when he ascended the throne, made Ausonius prefect of Gaul, and finally consul (379). When Gratian died...
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Latin Literature
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Aurelius gained fame both as a ruler and as one of the masters of the Latin essay. In the 3d and 4th cent. the writings of Ausonius and Avienus extended beyond classical studies, developing traditional themes to deal with everyday life and the world of nature...


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