TY - BOOK ID - 7877793 TI - Epigrams AU - Ausonius, Decimus Magnus AU - Kay, Nigel M. PY - 2001 SN - 0715631055 9780715631058 1336212004 1472502418 1472502426 PB - London : Duckworth, DB - UniCat KW - Epigrams, Latin. KW - Ausonius, Decimus Magnus. KW - Ausonius, Decimus Magnus KW - Criticism and interpretation. KW - Latin epigrams KW - Ausonio KW - Ausone KW - Ausonio, Decimo Magno KW - Ausonius, Decius Magnus KW - Ausonius, D. Magnus KW - Avsonīĭ, Det︠s︡im Magn KW - Авсоній, Децим Магн UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:7877793 AB - 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 commentar ER -