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Ausonius, With an English Translation; Volume 1
Decimus Magnus Ausonius was one of the great Latin poets of the late Roman Empire, known for his witty and erotic poetry as well as his ornamental works. In this edition, Hugh G. Evelyn-White provides a masterful translation of Ausonius' complete works, accompanied by detailed annotations and commentary. An essential addition to any classicist's library, this book is a testament to the enduring power and beauty of Latin poetry. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Prolegomena
Excerpt from Prolegomena: To Edition of the Works of Decimus Magnus Ausonius This monograph has been approved by the Department of Classical Philology of Columbia University as a contribution to knowledge worthy of publication. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Prolegomena to an Edition of the Works of Decimus Magnus Ausonius
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Ausonius: Epigrams
Decimus Magnus Ausonius of Bordeaux, whose life spanned the greater part of the fourth century AD, was one of the most significant literary and political figures of his age. After an academic career in his native Gaul he was appointed tutor to the future emperor Gratian, a position through which he achieved great power for himself and his family. He was made consul in 379 and later lived to enjoy a ripe old age as the grand old man of Latin letters. In this modern edition of Ausonius' short poems, collected together under the general heading of epigrams, N.M. Kay gives a line-by-line commentary dealing with points of literary, linguistic, historical and other interest. The epigrams throw light on many aspects of Ausonius' life, career and attitudes as well as on fourth-century Latin literature, and will thus be of interest to students of the fourth-century western world, of Latin literature, and of the epigram form in particular. This edition includes both Latin text and translation.
Ausonius, with an English Translation
THE works of Ausonius were held in high esteem by the poet's contemporaries: Symmachus protests that he classes the Mosella as equal with the poems of Virgil, and Paulinus of Nola has grave doubts as to whether " Tully and Maro " could have borne one yoke with his old master. Extravagant as such judgments may be, 1 they have their value as indicating wherein (from the modern point of view) the importance of Ausonius really lies. As poetry, in any high or imaginative sense of the word, the great mass of his verse is negligible; but the fact that in the later fourth century men of letters and of affairs thought otherwise, establishes it as an example and criterion of the literary culture of that age. The poems of Ausonius are in fact a series of documents from which we may gather in what poetry was then assumed to consist, w r hat were the conditions which determined its character, and the models which influenced it...
