biography
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Ausonius, Decimus Magnus
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pronunciation:
[awsohnius]
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| male
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| lived:
| (c.309–92)
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| biography:
| Latin poet, born in Burdigala (Bordeaux, France). He taught rhetoric there for 30 years, and was then appointed by Emperor Valentinian I to be tutor to his son Gratian. He later held the offices of quaestor, prefect of Latium and consul of Gaul. His works include epigrams, poems on his deceased relatives and on his colleagues, epistles in verse and prose, and idylls. |
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