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DECIMUS See also:MAGNUS See also:AUSONIUS (c. 310-395) , See also:Roman poet and rhetorician, was See also:born at Burdigala [See also:Bordeaux]: He received an etcellent See also:education, especially in See also:grammar and See also:rhetoric, but confesses that his progress in See also:Greek was unsatisfactory . Having completed his studies, he practised for some See also:time as an See also:advocate, but his inclination See also:lay in the direction of teaching . He set up (in 334) a school of rhetoric in his native See also:place, which was largely attended, his most famous See also:pupil being See also:Paulinus,afterwards See also:bishop of See also:Nola . After See also:thirty years of this See also:work, he was summoned by Valentinian to the imperial See also:court, to undertake the education of See also:Gratian, the See also:heir-apparent . The See also:prince always entertained the greatest regard for his See also:tutor, and after his See also:accession bestowed upon him the highest titles and honours,culminating in the See also:consul-See also:ship (379) . After the See also:murder of Gratian (383), See also:Ausonius retired to his estates near Burdigala . He appears to have been a (not very enthusiastic) convert to See also:Christianity . He died about 395 . His most important extant See also:works are: in See also:prose, Gratiarum Actio, an address of thanks to Gratian for his See also:elevation to the consulship; Periochae, summaries of the books of the Iliad and Odyssey; and one or two epistolae; in See also:verse, Epigrammata, including several See also:free See also:translations from the Greek See also:Anthology; See also:Ephemeris, the occupations of a See also:day ; Parentalia and Commemoratio Prolessorum Burdigalensium, on deceased relatives and See also:literary See also:friends ; Epitaphia, chiefly on the Trojan heroes Caesares, memorial verses on the Roman emperors from See also:Julius See also:Caesar to Elagabalus ; Ordo Nobilium Urbium, See also:short poems on famous cities ; Ludus Septem Sapientum, speeches delivered by the Seven Sages of See also:Greece ; Idyllia, of which the best-known are the Mosella, a descriptive poem on the Moselle, and the in-famous See also:Cento Nuptialis . We may also mention Cupido Cruciatus, See also:Cupid on the See also:cross ; Technopaegion, a literary trifle consisting of a collection of verses ending in monosyllables ; Eclogarum See also:Liber, on astronomical and astrological subjects ; Epistolae, including letters to Paulinus and See also:Symmachus ; lastly, Praefatiunculae, three poetical epistles, one to the See also:emperor See also:Theodosius . Ausonius was rather a See also:man of letters than a poet; his wide See also:reading supplied him with material for a See also:great variety of subjects, but his works exhibit no traces of a true poetic spirit even his versification, though ingenious, is frequently defective . There are no See also:MSS. containing the whole of Ausonius's works . Editio princeps, 1472; See also:editions by See also:Scaliger 1575, Souchay 1730, Schenkl 1883, •Peiper 1886; cf . Mosella, Bocking 1845, de la Ville de Mirmont (See also:critical edition with See also:translation) 1889, and De Ausonii See also:Morelia, 1892, See also:Hosius 1894 . See Deydou, Un Poste bordelais (1868) ; Everat, De Ausonii Operibus (1885) ; Jullian, Ausone et Bordeaux (1893); C . Verrier and R. de Gourmont, See also:Les 1pigrammes d'Ausone (translation with bibliography, 1905); R . Pichon, Les Derniers _(translation profanes (1907) . |
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