Ausonius, Decimus Magnus (c310-c395)
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Publius Ovidius Naso, known as Ovid in the English-speaking world, was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus.
Works by aUSONIUS
- Epigramata de diversis rebus
About 120 epigrams on various topics
- EphemerisBR>
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
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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 Bourdeaux 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 Burdigala), 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. It also includes
- Griphus ternarii numeri
- De aetatibus Hesiodon
- Monosticha de aerumnis Herculis
- De ambiguitate-eligendae vitae
- De viro bono
- EST et NON
- De rosis nascentibus (dubious)
- Versus paschales
- Epicedion in patrem
- Technopaegnion
- Cento nuptialis, composed of lines and half-lines of Vergil.
- Bissula
- Protrepticus
- Genethliacon
- Eglogarum liber
A collection of all kinds of astronomical and astrological versifications in ep - ic 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.
- Praefatiunculae
Prefaces by the poet to various collections of his poems, including a response to the emperor Theodosius I's request for his poems.
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