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APPENDIX OF AUTHORS AND WORKS<br />

BIBLIOGRAPHY<br />

TEXTS AND COMMENTARIES: TEXTS: A. Holder (Innsbruck 18S7).<br />

Descriptio: P. van de Woestijne (Bruges 1961). COMMENTARIES: Ora maritima: A.<br />

Schulten (Barcelona-Berlin 1922); A. Berthelot (Paris 1934).<br />

STUDIES: J. F. Matthews, 'Continuity in a Roman family: the Festi of Volsinii",<br />

Historia 16 (1967) 484-509; A. Cameron, 'Macrobius, Avienus <strong>and</strong> Avianus', C.Q.<br />

n.s. 17 (1967)<br />

AUSONIUS, DECIMUS MAGNUS<br />

LIFE<br />

b. in Bordeaux A.D. 310. Taught there for thirty years, then summoned by Valentinian<br />

to be tutor to Gratian; joined them in campaigns in Germany 368-9. Praetorian Prefect<br />

in Gaul 378 <strong>and</strong> consul 379. On Gratian's murder in 383 retired to Bordeaux <strong>and</strong> d.<br />

393/394. Sources: Auson. praef.; Symm. Epist. 1.13—43, 1.20, 22, 23; Auson. Grat.<br />

act. 2.11,8.40; Auson. Epist. 27.9off., 31.<br />

WORKS<br />

Following are likely dates of composition for those of A.'s works whose chronology<br />

can be established; few if any of them are certain. (Page refs. to Peiper's ed.) c. 335 :<br />

Epistula adpatrem de suscepto filio (p. 255). 367—371: Versus Paschales (p. 17). 368:<br />

Cento nuptialis (p. 206). 369: Bissula poems (p. 114). 370—371: Mosella (p. 118), Epist.<br />

4, 6, 7 (p. 232). 374: Epist. 12 (p. 238). 378—379: Epicedion in patrem (p. 21), Precationes<br />

(p. 24). 379: Gratiarum actio (p. 353), Epist. 11 (p. 236), De herediolo (p. 16), Ordo<br />

urbiutn nobilium (? 1st ed.; p. 144). 380: Caesares (p. 183), Epist. 2 (p. 222). 379—383:<br />

Parentalia (p. 28), Epist. 23, 25, 26 (p. 268). 383: Technopaegnion (p. 155). 380-389:<br />

Commemoratio professorum Burdigalensium (p. 48). 388—390: Ordo urbium nobilium<br />

(p. 144). 389-390: Epitaphia (p. 72). 390: Ludus septem sapientium (p. 169). Arguments<br />

on dating of A.'s poems are most clearly set out in Pastorino's ed., intr. 70-105. Cf.<br />

PLREl 140-1.<br />

BIBLIOGRAPHY<br />

TEXTS AND COMMENTARIES: TEXTS: K. Schenkl (Berlin 1883); R. Peiper<br />

(BT, 1886); H. G. Evelyn White (Loeb, 1919); A. Pastorino (Turin 1971); S. Prete<br />

(BT, 1978). COMMENTARIES: Mosella: C. Hosius, 3rd ed. (Marburg 1926); W.John<br />

(Trier 1932); E. H. Blakeney (London 1933); A. Marsili (Turin 1957).<br />

TRANSLATION: J. Lindsay, Song of a falling world (London 1948) 70-82<br />

(select poems).<br />

911<br />

Cambridge Histories Online © Cambridge University Press, 2008

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