Opera - Ausonius, Decimus Magnus c. 310-c. 395 (Amsterdam Jansz, 1621)
Epigrammata Ausonii de diversis rebus. About 120 epigrams on various topics -- Ephemeris. A description of the occupations of the day from morning till evening, in various meters, composed before 367. Only the beginning and end are preserved -- Parentalia. 30 poems of various lengths, mostly in elegiac meter, on deceased relations, composed after his consulate, when he had already been a widower for 36 years -- Commemoratio professorum Burdigalensium or Professores. A continuation of the Parentalia, dealing with the famous teachers of his native Bordeaux whom he had known -- Epitaphia. 26 epitaphs of heroes from the Trojan war, translated from Greek -- Caesares. On the 12 emperors described by Suetonius -- Ordo urbium nobilium. 14 pieces, dealing with 17 towns (Rome to Bordeaux), in hexameters, and composed after the downfall of Maximus in 388 -- Ludus VII Sapientium. A kind of puppet play in which the seven wise men appear successively and have their say -- The so-called Idyllia. 20 pieces are grouped under this arbitrary title, the most famous of which is the Mosella -- Eglogarum liber. A collection of all kinds of astronomical and astrological versifications in epic and elegiac meter -- Epistolarum liber. 25 verse letters in various meters -- Ad Gratianum gratiarum actio pro consulatu. Prose speech of thanks to the emperor Gratian on the occasion of attaining the consulship, delivered at Treves in 379 -- Periochae Homeri Iliadis et Odyssiae. A prose summary of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, attributed to but probably not written by Ausonius -- Quinti -- Cyherii -- Hadriani - Vita Ausonii
Ausonius (4th century) was a Roman poet and teacher of rhetoric
Ex libris Carritt (manuscript)
Keywords: Classical Antiquity (8th Century BC-6th Century AD); 17th Century (1601-1700); Poetry; Rhetoric; Biography