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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
Ausonius, the most famous of the learned poets active in the second half of the fourth century, was born at Bordeaux and taught school there for 30 years before being summoned to court to teach the future emperor Gratian. He subsequently held important public offices, returning to Bordeaux and private life after Gratian's death in 383. The subjects of many of his poems are typical of the academic world of the time. His Commemorations of the Professors of Bordeaux, a sequence of light verse obituaries of local teachers, in which people are honored—or gossiped about—in their daily occupations, has been called an illustrious poetic precedent to Edgar Lee Masters's Spoon River Anthology. To a literary verse translation of the Commemorations David Slavitt has added versions of Ausonius's Nuptial Cento, assembled from snippets of Shakespeare (Ausonius's original is a pastiche of Virgil), and selected epigrams.
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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...
