French bordeaux

Ambrosius
French bordeaux
Prudentius poems

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Hespe'rius

son of the poet Ausonius by his wife Attusia Lucana Sabina. We have no data for fixing the year of his birth. He lost his mother while he was young; but his education was carefully superintended by his father, who wrote "Fasti," for the use of his son, and inscribed to him his metrical catalogue of the Caesars. Hesperius received, probably from the emperor Gratian, who was his father's pupil, the proconsulship of Africa, which he held A. D. 376, and perhaps later. He was one of the persons appointed to inquire into the malpractices of Count Romanus and his accomplices, and executed the task with equity, in conjunction with Flavianus, vicarius of the province. [FLAVIANUS, No. 5.] He afterwards held the praetorian praefecture in conjunction (as we judge from some expressions of Ausonius) with his father. Valesius thinks they were joint praefecti praetorio Galliarum; Gothofred, that they were joint P. P. of the whole western empire (comprehending the praefectures of Gaul, Italy, and Illyrium), but that Ausonius usually resided in Gaul, and Hesperius in Italy. There are ex

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society and conditions of life in his day; but he reveals to us certain sides of social life which are at least curious—as in the picture which he draws of the typical agent who “managed” the estates of the Roman landowner of his day (Epist. xxvi.), or when he shows what manner of folk were the middle-class people, officials, doctors, professors and their womankind, amongst whom so large a part of his life was spent.

Both these aspects of Ausonius’ work, the literary and the social, are explained by the facts of his life.

Life of Ausonius

Decimus Magnus Ausonius was born about 310 a.d. His father, Julius Ausonius, a native of Bazas and the scion apparently of a race of yeomen (Domestica i. 2, Grat. Act. viii.), is introduced to us as a physician of remarkable skill and discreet character who had settled at Bordeaux, where he practised and where his son was born. Aemilia Aeonia, the mother of the future consul, was of mixed Aeduan and Aquitanian descent, the daughter of one Caecilius Argicius Arborius, who had fled to Dax in the anarchic days of Victorinus and the Tetrici and had

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Ausonius

Late Roman poet

This article is about the Roman poet. For the Swedish murderer, see John Ausonius.

Decimius Magnus Ausonius^[1] (; 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.

Biography

Decimius Magnus Ausonius was born c. 310 in Burdigala (now Bordeaux), the son of Julius Ausonius (c. 290 – 378), a physician of Greek ancestry,^[2]^[3] and Aemilia Aeonia, daughter of Caecilius Argicius Arborius, descended on both sides from established, land-owning Gallo-Roman families of southwestern Gaul.^[3]

Ausonius was given a strict u