„Achte auf das Ende bei einem langen Leben.“
— Ausonius
Leben und Meinungen der Sieben Weisen / Solon
lat.: "specta finem longae vitae"
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Ausonius
Geburtstag: 310
Todesdatum: 395
Decimus Magnus Ausonius war ein spätantiker hoher gallo-römischer Staatsbeamter, Prinzenerzieher und Dichter.
Zitate Ausonius
„Anderen magst du viel verzeihen, dir nichts!“
— Ausonius
Merksprüche der Sieben Weisen / Kleobulos von Lindos
lat.: "Ignoscas aliis multa, nihil tibi."
„Bürge, doch den Schaden rechne dir selbst zu!“
— Ausonius
Leben und Meinungen der Sieben Weisen / Thales von Milet
lat.: "sponde, noxa sed praesto tibi"
„Maßhalten ist das Beste.“
— Ausonius
Leben und Meinungen der Sieben Weisen / Kleobulos von Lindos
lat.: "optimus modus" / "modus in omnibus rebus optimus"
„Ausonius must be read to be believed! As poet, no subject is too trivial for him; as courtier, no flattery too excessive.“
— Ausonius
Gore Vidal, Julian (1964), p. 11.
Criticism
„What colour are they now, thy quiet waters?
The evening star has brought the evening light,
And filled the river with the green hillside;
The hill-tops waver in the rippling water,
Trembles the absent vine and swells the grape
In thy clear crystal.“
— Ausonius, Mosella
Quis color ille vadis, seras cum propulit umbras
Hesperus et viridi perfudit monte Mosellam!
tota natant crispis iuga motibus et tremit absens
pampinus et vitreis vindemia turget in undis.
"Mosella", line 192; translation from Helen Waddell Mediaeval Latin Lyrics ([1929] 1943) p. 31.
Original: (la) Quis color ille vadis, seras cum propulit umbras<br/>Hesperus et viridi perfudit monte Mosellam!<br/>tota natant crispis iuga motibus et tremit absens<br/>pampinus et vitreis vindemia turget in undis.
„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
Helen Waddell, Mediaeval Latin Lyrics ([1929] 1943), p. 291.
Criticism
„The poetical fame of Ausonius condemns the taste of his age.“
— Ausonius
Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776-89), ch. 27.
Criticism
„So many lovely things, so rare, so young,
A day begat them, and a day will end.“
— Ausonius
Tot species, tantosque ortus variosque novatus
una dies aperit, conficit ipsa dies.
"De Rosis Nascentibus", line 39; translation from Helen Waddell Mediaeval Latin Lyrics ([1929] 1943) p. 29.
This poem used to be misattributed to Virgil, but is now usually ascribed to Ausonius.
Original: (la) Tot species, tantosque ortus variosque novatus<br/>una dies aperit, conficit ipsa dies.
„They wander in deep woods, in mournful light,
Amid long reeds and drowsy headed poppies
And lakes where no wave laps, and voiceless streams,
Upon whose banks in the dim light grow old
Flowers that were once bewailèd names of kings.“
— Ausonius
Errantes silva in magna et sub luce maligna
inter harundineasque comas gravidumque papaver
et tacitos sine labe lacus, sine murmure rivos,
quorum per ripas nebuloso lumine marcent
fleti, olim regum et puerorum nomina, flores.
"Cupido Cruciator", line 5; translation from Helen Waddell Mediaeval Latin Lyrics ([1929] 1943) p. 31.
Original: (la) Errantes silva in magna et sub luce maligna<br/>inter harundineasque comas gravidumque papaver<br/>et tacitos sine labe lacus, sine murmure rivos,<br/>quorum per ripas nebuloso lumine marcent<br/>fleti, olim regum et puerorum nomina, flores.
„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.“
— Ausonius
Edward Townsend Booth, God Made the Country (1946), p. 37.
Criticism
„It is outrageous that a strictly abstemious reader should sit in judgement on a poet a little drunk.“
— Ausonius
Griphus Ternarii Numeri, "Ausonio Symmacho"; translation from Helen Waddell The Wandering Scholars ([1927] 1954) p. 37.
Original: (la) Iniurium est de poeta male sobrio lectorem abstemium iudicare.
„I've never written for a fasting man;
A taste of wine is good before my verse.
But sleep is better than a little wine,
For when sleeping one thinks my songs are dreams.“
— Ausonius
Jejunis nil scribo: meum post pocula si quis
legerit, hic sapiet.
Sed magis hic sapiet, si dormiet: et putet ista
somnia missa sibi.
"De Bissula", line 13; translation from Harold Isbell (trans.) The Last Poets of Imperial Rome (1971) p. 48.
Original: (la) Jejunis nil scribo: meum post pocula si quis<br/>legerit, hic sapiet.<br/>Sed magis hic sapiet, si dormiet: et putet ista<br/>somnia missa sibi.
„Every stage of life has its troubles, and no man is content with his own age.“
— Ausonius
Eclogae 2, line 10; translation from Hugh Gerard Evelyn White Ausonius ([1919-21] 1951) vol. 1, p. 165.
Original: (la) Omne aevum curae; cunctis sua displicet aetas.
„O maid, while youth is with the rose and thee,
Pluck thou the rose: life is as swift for thee.“
— Ausonius
Collige, virgo, rosas, dum flos novus et nova pubes,
et memor esto aevum sic properare tuum.
"De Rosis Nascentibus", line 49; translation from Helen Waddell Mediaeval Latin Lyrics ([1929] 1943) p. 29.
Original: (la) Collige, virgo, rosas, dum flos novus et nova pubes,<br/>et memor esto aevum sic properare tuum.
„If many dread you, then beware of many.“
— Ausonius
"Septem Sapientium Sententiae" 4: Periander Corinthius, line 5; translation from Hugh Gerard Evelyn White Ausonius ([1919-21] 1951) vol. 2, p. 275.
Original: (la) Multis terribilis timeto multos.
„His monuments decay, and death comes even to his marbles and his names.“
— Ausonius
Monumenta fatiscunt:
mors etiam saxis nominibusque venit.
"Epitaphia" 31: De Nomine Cuiusdam Lucii Sculpto in Marmore, line 10; translation from Hugh Gerard Evelyn White Ausonius ([1919-21] 1951) vol. 1, p. 159.
Original: (la) Monumenta fatiscunt:<br/>mors etiam saxis nominibusque venit.
„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.“
— Ausonius
And in spite of all this highly self-conscious technical facility he managed occasionally to write poetry.
Edward Townsend Booth, God Made the Country (1946), p. 37.
Criticism
