Ausonius

/ ɔːˈsəʊnɪəs /

noun

AusoniusDecimus Magnus?310?395MRomanWRITING: poet Decimus Magnus (ˈdɛsɪməs ˈmæɡnəs). ?310–?395 ad , Latin poet, born in Gaul

In Gaul around Ausonius there grew up at Bordeaux a numerous and accomplished and enthusiastic school of poets.

Thus, as Ausonius has pertinently remarked, chaste men engender obscene literatures.

Ausonius, in the fourteenth century of the Christian era, imitates this in his 12th epigram.

They cannot, Sidonius and his friends, ignore as Ausonius and his friends did, that something is happening to the empire.

Ausonius has seen the Germans overrun Gaul once, but he never speaks of a danger that may recur.

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