List of His Works
- Epigramata de diversis rebus. About 120 epigrams on various topics.
- Ephemeris. A description of the occupations of the day from morning till evening, in various meters, composed before 367. Only the beginning and end are preserved.
- Parentalia. 30 poems of various lengths, mostly in elegiac meter, on deceased relations, composed after his consulate, when he had already been a widower for 36 years.
- Commemoratio professorum Burdigalensium or Professores. A continuation of the Parentalia, dealing with the famous teachers of his native Bourdeaux whom he had known.
- Epitaphia. 26 epitaphs of heroes from the Trojan war, translated from Greek
- Caesares. On the 12 emperors described by Suetonius.
- Ordo urbium nobilium. 14 pieces, dealing with 17 towns (Rome to Burdigala), in hexameters, and composed after the downfall of Maximus in 388.
- Ludus VII Sapientium. A kind of puppet play in which the seven wise men appear successively and have their say.
- The so-called Idyllia. 20 pieces are grouped under this arbitrary title, the most famous of which is the
- Mosella. It also includes
- Griphus ternarii numeri
- De aetatibus Hesiodon
- Monosticha de aerumnis Herculis
- De ambiguitate eligendae vitae
- De viro bono
- EST et NON
- De rosis nascentibus (dubious)
- Versus paschales
- Epicedion in patrem
- Technopaegnion
- Cento nuptialis, composed of lines and half-lines of Vergil.
- Bissula
- Protrepticus
- Genethliacon
- Eglogarum liber. A collection of all kinds of astronomical and astrological versifications in epic and elegiac meter.
- Epistolarum liber. 25 verse letters in various meters.
- Ad Gratianum gratiarum actio pro consulatu. Prose speech of thanks to the emperor Gratian on the occasion of attaining the consulship, delivered at Treves in 379.
- Periochae Homeri Iliadis et Odyssiae. A prose summary of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, attributed to but probably not written by Ausonius.
- Praefatiunculae. Prefaces by the poet to various collections of his poems, including a response to the emperor Theodosius I's request for his poems.
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