Item #008373 Ausonius [2 vols]. H. G. Evelyn White.

Ausonius [2 vols]

London: William Heinemann. Hardcover. 16mo. Near Fine / Very Good. Item #008373

1968, 1961. Full red cloth. xliii, 397, 8; v, 367, 8 pp. Light rubbing to extremities and bumps to spine ends of both volumes. Dust jackets are price clipped. Jacket of vol. I is heavily chipped to foot, sunned to spine. Jacket of vol. II is stained, darkened to spine, a few small chips. Ausonius (Decimus Magnus), c. A.D. 310 - c. 395, a doctor's son, was born at Burdigala (Bordeaux). After a short period during which he was an advocate, he took to teaching rhetoric in a school which he began in the University of Bordeaux in 334. Among his pupils was Paulinus who was afterward Bishop of Nola; and he seems to have become some sort of Christian himself. Surviving works, some with deep feeling, some it seems composed for fun, some didactic (he was a Professor), include much poetry and in prose an address of thanks to Gratian for his consulship, as well as other works.

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