[APPENDIX VI]
SHORT LIVES OF ROMAN AUTHORS
DECIMUS MAGNUS AUSONIUS, 309-392 A.D.
1. Life.
AUSONIUS.
Born at Burdigala (Bordeaux), and carefully educated. At the age of thirty appointed professor of rhetoric in his native University, where he became so famous that he was appointed tutor to Gratian, son of the Emperor Valentinian (364-375 A.D.), and was afterwards raised to the highest honours of the State (Consul, 379 A.D.). Theodosius (Emperor of the East, 378-395 A.D.) gave him leave to retire from court to his native country, where he closed his days in an honoured literary retirement.
2. Works.
A very voluminous writer both in prose and verse.