Ausone

Ausone or Decius or Decimus Magnus Ausonius , born with Bordeaux about the year 309 and died towards 394 undoubtedly in this same city, was a Latin poet of language E. His/her father, Jules Ausone (287-377), was doctor, prefect of Illyrie and archiatre of Valentinien I {{er}}. With him the long tradition of the Latin letters of France and the use of the alive Latin starts in this country until our days.

Biography

It makes its studies with Bordeaux and practical the right some time. He then prefers to turn to the teaching initially of grammar, then of rhetoric. He had as a pupil holy Paulin (353-431), bishop of Nole (or Nola), with which he maintained a long correspondence, its life during.

He is approximately 30 years old, when the emperor Valentinien I {{er}} calls it like Précepteur near his son Gratien, who will become emperor in his turn in 367. Gratien will dedicate all its life to him an immense respect. Ausone knows a beautiful career: initially count of the palate, then questeur, prefect of the court, consul (379) and finally proconsul of Asia.

He is prefect for the Italy and the Africa before 377 then in 377 - 378 (perhaps longer), prefect of the Gaulle S.

He withdraws court with dead of Gratien, in 383, and goes back itself from there to Bordeaux, sharing its life between his/her friends, poetry and the pleasures pastoral: it is there that it composed the majority of its works. Its tomb would be in the hermitage of the Mortagne-on-Gironde. There are of him epigram S, Idylle S, eclogue S and epistle S. Its worms often celebrate the table and especially, the Vin, the Vin of Bordeaux whose Château Ausone will take the name, but also the Vins of the Moselle and the Vins of Italy. Its chief of work is the Moselle , description in 483 Hexamètre S of a voyage of Bingen to Trier. Its most estimated pieces are the Parentales , the Roses , the the Moselle and the Crucifiement of the Love . One finds in his poetries enough elegance, and of spirit, but of the assignment, monotony and many puerilities.

It is in the ode with the the Moselle of this fishing accomplished that appears for the first time, among force precise details Halieutique S and ichtyologic, the Latin name ( salar ) of the Truite:
“purpureisque salar stellatus will tergora guttis” (“the trout has the spangled back of drops of crimson”
“which nec dum salmo nec iam salar” (“you, salmon trout, which are not yet the salmon and are not any more the trout”.

The correspondence between Ausone, remained pagan, and (the future saint) Paulin de Nole, convert with Christianity, “is a document of exceptional importance so much in the field of the history of the aristocratic company of Late Antiquity (life of great landowners, reaction of Ausone to the conuersio of Paulin) that on the literary level (abandonment of poetry profane by Paulin, design of the epistolary friendship). ” (Janine Desmulliez, report of the edition and the French translation of this correspondence per David Amherdt)

Works

epigrams cash 150 poetries.
a éphéméride which one has that fragments and who seems intended for youth
the Parentalia , praises of his/her parents almost completely in elegiac worms.
praises of professors de Bordeaux.
epitaphs of the Heroes who were with the war of Troy.
Césars which evokes the emperors also described by Suétone.
famous cities where he writes on Constantinople, Carthage, Antioche, Alexandria, Trier, Milan, Capoue, Aquilée, Arles, Lérida, Athens, Catane, Syracuse, Toulouse, Narbonne and Bordeaux. The part on Rome counts one towards and is probably incomplete.
play of the seven wise ones, probably gone back to 390.
the famous Idylles to be the most beautiful work of the author and very often republished. It is in this unit which its famous poem the Moselle interesting for ichtyologic knowledge is that it contains.
Epigrammata . Venetiis, impressa magistr. Ioanne de Cereto de Tridino alias Tacuini, 1496 pridie idus octobriis.
Opera . Venice In Aedibus Aldi and Andreae Soceri, November 1517.
Griphi Ausoniani Enodatio . Paris, venundatur in aedibus Ascensianis. 1522.
Opera. Adhaec Symmachi, and Pontii Paulini litterae AD Ausonium scriptae tum Ciceronis, sulpicae… veterum dyed with carmine nonulla . Burdigalae (Bordeaux), S. Millanges, 1580.

Various poems and letters.
Its works were published in Bordeaux, 1580, with the notes of Élie Vinet; with Paris, cum notis variorum , 1730, by the Abbot Jean-Baptiste Souchay; and in the Poetx latini undervalue Johann Christian Wernsdorf. They were translated into French by the Abbé Jaubert, 1769, and by Etienne-François Corpet, 1843 (in the Collection Panckoucke).

Ausone and Paulin de Nole, Correspondence ; Introd., Latin text, translation and notes by David Amherdt; Peter Lang, 2004 (Sapheneia, Beiträge zur Klassischen Philology; 9), VII and 247 p. (ISBN 3-03910-247-8). Report criticizes of Janine Desmulliez

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