This article is about the Roman poet. For the Swedish murderer, see John Ausonius.
Decimius Magnus Ausonius
Monument to Ausonius in Milan
Born
c. 310
Burdigala
Died
c. 395
Nationality
Roman
Occupation(s)
poet, teacher
Relatives
Aemilia Hilaria (aunt)
Aemilius Magnus Arborius (uncle)
Paulinus of Pella (grandson)
Decimius Magnus Ausonius[1] (/ɔːˈsoʊniəs/; c. 310 – c. 395) was a Roman poet and teacher of rhetoric from Burdigala, Aquitaine (now Bordeaux, France). For a time, he was tutor to the future Emperor Gratian, who afterwards bestowed the consulship on him. His best-known poems are Mosella, a description of the River Moselle, and Ephemeris, an account of a typical day in his life. His many other verses show his concern for his family, friends, teachers and circle of well-to-do acquaintances and his delight in the technical handling of meter.
^Olli Salomies, "The Nomenclature of the Poet Ausonius", Arctos 50 (2016), pp. 133–142
handling of meter. Decimius Magnus Ausonius was born c. 310 in Burdigala (now Bordeaux), the son of Julius Ausonius (c. 290 – 378), a physician of Greek...
description of Ausonius. 8 November 1991: Ausonius mortally wounded Jimmy Ranjbar, another Iranian student, who died the following day. Ausonius took a trip...
university had to train administrators. Only rhetoric and grammar were taught. Ausonius and Sulpicius Severus were two of the teachers. In 1441, when Bordeaux...
in Book 13 of his Annals and in Book 4 of his Histories. The Roman poet Ausonius made it a literary theme as early as the 4th century. In his poem dated...
dials to act as calendars or predict astronomical events. In a poem by Ausonius in the 4th century AD, he mentions a stone-cutting saw powered by water...
young age and became a slave of the Roman poet Ausonius who had participated in the campaign. Ausonius, who by then was a widower of about 60 years of...
patronage of the goddess Pallas Athena, so that the Latin poets Martial, Ausonius and Sidonius Apollinaris called the city Palladia Tolosa (Palladian Toulouse)...
philosopher of the 3rd century AD, lists Periander as one of these Seven Sages. Ausonius also refers to Periander as one of the Sages in his work The Masque of...
Myson; the same substitution appears in The Masque of the Seven Sages by Ausonius. Both Ephorus and Plutarch (in his Banquet of the Seven Sages) substituted...
nascentibus" ("Of growing roses", also called Idyllium de rosis) attributed to Ausonius or Virgil. It encourages youth to enjoy life before it is too late; compare...
at the Fontinalia for his role in the public water supply for the city. Ausonius invokes fons, the manmade outlet that makes the water available to the...
anonymously in 1602, was later (1640) attributed by some to Francis Beaumont. Ausonius, in his Epigramata de diversis rebus / Epigrams on various matters (4th...
naked?" — Plato, Epigram XVII According to an epigram from Roman poet Ausonius, Praxiteles never saw what he was not meant to see, but instead sculpted...
Marie-Laurence Haack, Les haruspices dans le monde romain (Bordeaux : Ausonius, 2003). Hans Gustav Güterbock, 'Hittite liver models' in: Language, Literature...
Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Ausonius and Hermogenianus (or, less frequently, year 1132 Ab urbe condita). The...
Superior were formally established there. Yet as late as the 4th century AD, Ausonius, a poet and tutor from Burdigala, wrote a poem about an Alemanni slave...
Famille et pouvoir à Rome à l'époque républicaine (in French). Bordeaux: Ausonius Éditions. ISBN 978-2-35613-073-0. Fronda, Michael P. (2015) [2011]. "Hannibal:...
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