Ausonius quotes
Ausonius was a Roman poet and teacher of rhetoric from the province of Gaul. His works provide valuable insights into the culture and society of late Roman Empire. He is remembered for his influential poetry and for mentoring the future Emperor Gratian. Here are 21 of his quotes:
It is the things which Ausonius reveals unconsciously that win him liking, not those which he sets out to celebrate with a kind of innocent pomp: not the chair of rhetoric at twenty-five, nor the imperial tutorship in his fifties, nor the consulship at sixty-nine, but that he loved and taught rhetoric all his life, and kept his simplicity.
Ausonius
In the history of versification did anyone ever juggle so wildly well with iambics, sapphics, dactylics, anapestics, and all the rest? He fabricated verses most ingeniously, most enthusiastically. His virtuosity is amazing. Almost every line he wrote was a tour de force. And in spite of all this highly self-conscious technical facility he managed occasionally to write poetry.
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Ausonius
Occupation: Roman PoetBorn: 310
Died: 395
Quotes count: 21
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