„Achte auf das Ende bei einem langen Leben.“
— Ausonius
Leben und Meinungen der Sieben Weisen / Solon
Zitate von Ausonius
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Ausonius
Geburtstag: 310
Todesdatum: 395
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Decimus Magnus Ausonius war ein spätantiker hoher gallo-römischer Staatsbeamter, Prinzenerzieher und Dichter.
Zitate Ausonius
„Bürge, doch den Schaden rechne dir selbst zu!“
— Ausonius
Leben und Meinungen der Sieben Weisen / Thales von Milet
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„Denke nach über alles!“
— Ausonius
Leben und Meinungen der Sieben Weisen / Periander von Korinth
„Maßhalten ist das Beste.“
— Ausonius
Leben und Meinungen der Sieben Weisen / Kleobulos von Lindos
„Anderen magst du viel verzeihen, dir nichts!“
— Ausonius
Merksprüche der Sieben Weisen / Kleobulos von Lindos
„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.
„So many lovely things, so rare, so young,
A day begat them, and a day will end.“
— Ausonius
"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.
„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
"Cupido Cruciator", line 5; translation from Helen Waddell Mediaeval Latin Lyrics ([1929] 1943) p. 31.
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„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.
„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
"De Bissula", line 13; translation from Harold Isbell (trans.) The Last Poets of Imperial Rome (1971) p. 48.
„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.
„O maid, while youth is with the rose and thee,
Pluck thou the rose: life is as swift for thee.“
— Ausonius
"De Rosis Nascentibus", line 49; translation from Helen Waddell Mediaeval Latin Lyrics ([1929] 1943) p. 29.
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„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.
„His monuments decay, and death comes even to his marbles and his names.“
— Ausonius
"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.
„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.
„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", line 192; translation from Helen Waddell Mediaeval Latin Lyrics ([1929] 1943) p. 31.
