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Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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Analysis of Content

[a1v] [Girardinus, Bartholomaeus: Note on contents.] ‘Ad lectorem.’ Botfield, 139-40.

[a2r] [List of poems with incipits.] ‘Poemata haec in parvo hoc opere.’

[b2r] Ausonius Paeonius, [Decimus Magnus]: Epigrammata. Incipit: ‘[P]hoebe potens numeris, praeses Tritonia bellis, | Tu quoque ab aereo praepes Victoria lapsu.’

[c5v] Ausonius Paeonius, [Decimus Magnus]: ‘Versus pascales.’ Incipit: ‘[S]ancta salutiferi redeunt solemnia Christi | Et deuota pii celebrant ieiunia mystae’ Prete, 82-3, no. IX (Green 15-16, no. IV).

[c6r] Ausonius Paeonius, [Decimus Magnus]: Epistulae. Incipit: ‘Ausonius Paulo salutem. [T]andem eluctati retinacula blanda morarum | Burdigale molles liquimus illecebras.’ Prete 235-40 nos 2, 4-5 (to l. 20) (Green 193-7 nos 2, 4-5 to l. 19); Prete 236 no. 3 (Green 194-5 no. 3); Prete 240-1 no. 5 (from l. 20) (Green no. 5 from l. 20); Prete 265-7 no. 19 (Green 215-16 no. 17); Prete 251-2 no. 11 (Green 205-6 no. 10); Prete 267-70 no. 21 (Green 217-19 no. 19); Prete 271-3 no. 22 (Green 219-22 no. 20); Prete 245-6 no. 9 (Green 206-7 no. 11); Prete 247-51 no. 10 (Green 201-4 no. 9); Prete 241-4 nos 6-7 (Green 198-200 nos 6-7); Prete 244-5 no. 8 (Green 200-1 no. 8).

[d6r] Ausonius, [Decimus Magnus]: [Ecloga.] ‘Monostichum de .xii. erumnis Herculis.’ Incipit: ‘[P]rima Cleonaei tolerata erumna leonis. | Proxima Lernaeam ferro et face contudit hydram.’ Prete 112-13 no. 24 (Green 103 no. 17).

[d6r] Ausonius, [Decimus Magnus]: [De XII caesaribus.] Incipit: ‘[C]aesareos proceres, in quorum regna secundis | Consulibus dudum Romana potentia cessit.’ Prete 202-4 nos 1-4 and 208-9 nos 13-18 (Green 161-8 no. XXIII (parts)).

[d7r] [Ausonius, Decimus Magnus]: [Epigramma.] ‘In Scabiosum polygitonem.’ Incipit: ‘[T]hermarum in solio si quis Polygitona uidit | Vlcera membrorum scabie putrefacta fouentem.’ Prete 327-8 no. 106 (Green 95 no. 115).

[d7v] [Ausonius, Decimus Magnus]: [Ecloga.] ‘De mensibus et quattuor anni temporibus.’ Incipit: ‘[A]eternos menses et tempora quattuor anni | Quattuor ista tibi subiecta monosticha dicent.’ Prete 109-10 no. 18 (Green 101 no. 11)

[d7v] [Ausonius, Decimus Magnus]: [Epigramma.] ‘De quodam Silvio bono qui erat Britto.’ Incipit: ‘[S]iluius ille Bonus, qui carmina nostra lacessit, | Nostra magis meruit disticha Britto Bonus.’ Prete 328-9 nos 107-12 (Green 95-6 nos 116-21).

[d7v] [Ausonius, Decimus Magnus]: [Ephemeris.] ‘In notarium in scribendo velocissimum.’ Incipit: ‘[P]uer, notarum praeceptum | solers minister, aduola.’ Prete 330-1 no. XXVII (Green 12-13 no. 7).

[d8r] Ausonius, [Decimus Magnus]: Gratiarum actio ad Gratianum imperatorem pro consulatu. Prete 214-32 no. XXIV (Green 146-60 no. XXI).

[e8r] [Ausonius, Decimus Magnus]: [Technopaegnion.] ‘De monosyllabis opus.’ Prete 126-37 nos 2-12 and 14 (Green 176-83 nos 2-13 and 15-16).

[f2v] Ausonius, [Decimus Magnus]: Griphus ternarii numeri. ‘Crippus de ternario numero.’ Prete 150-8 no. XVIII (Green 111-15 no. XV).

[f4v] Ausonius, [Decimus Magnus]: Cento nuptialis. Prete 159-69 no. XIX (Green 132-9 no. XVIII).

[f8r] Ausonius, [Decimus Magnus]: [Epistula.] ‘Ausonius Theoni salutem.’ Incipit: ‘[A]usonius, cuius ferulam nunc sceptra uerentur, | Paganum e Medulis iubeo saluere Theonem.’ Prete 253-7 no. 12 (Green 208-11 no. 13).

[g1v] [Ausonius Paeonius, Decimus Magnus]: [Ephemeris: Oratio.] ‘Praecatio matutina ad omnipotentem Deum.’ Incipit: ‘[O]mnipotens, quem mente colo, pater unice rerum | Ignorate malis et nulli ignote piorum.’ Prete 7-10 no. 3 (Green 8-10 no. 3).

[g2v] [Ausonius Paeonius, Decimus Magnus]: Epicedion in patrem. ‘Epicedion in partem(!) de vita sua.’ Incipit: ‘[N]omen ego Ausonius; non ultimus arte medendi, | Et, mea si nosces tempora, primus eram.’ Prete 86-8 no. XI (parts) (Green 17-18 no. V (parts)).

[g3v] Ausonius, [Decimus Magnus]: Protrepticus ad nepotem. Prete 72-8 no. VII (Green 21-4 no. VIII).

[g5r] Ausonius, [Decimus Magnus]: [Cupido cruciatus.] ‘Aeglogarum liber.’ Prete 116-21 no. XIV (Green 139-43 no. XIX).

[g7r] Ausonius, [Decimus Magnus]: De Bissula. Prete 122-5 nos 1-2, 4-7 (Green 130-2 no. XVII).

[g7v] Girardinus, Bartholomaeus: [Greek and Latin poem.] Incipit: ’ Αὐσόνιος fueram solus νυ̂ν χείλε τέ κοσμω̂ | Artificis χειρὴ εἰσὶ τε καί φύσεϊ ‘; 2 elegiac distichs. Botfield, 139.

[h1r] Ovidius Publius Naso [pseudo-]: ‘Consolatio ad Liviam Augustam de morte Drusii Neronis filii eius qui in Germania morbo periit.’ Incipit: ‘[V]isa diu felix, mater modo dicta Neronum, | iam tibi dimidium nominis huius abest.’ The Pseudo-Ovidian Ad Liviam de morte Drusii, ed. Henk Schoonhoven (Groningen, 1992).

[i2r] Proba: [Cento Vergilianus.] ‘Excerptum e Maronis carminibus ad testimonium veteris novique testamenti opusculum.’ Incipit: ‘[I]am dudum temerasse duces pia fœdera pacis | regnandi miseros tenuit quos dira cupido.’ PL XIX 803-18. Proba, Cento, ed. C. Schenkl, Poetæ christiani minores, part 1, CSEL 16 (Vienna, 1888), 569-609. On the author see Filippo Ermini, Il Centone di Proba e la poesia centonaria latina (Rome, 1909), 5-14.

[k1r] Calpurnius Siculus, Titus: [Bucolica.] Incipit: ‘[N]ondum Solis equos decliuis(!) mitigat aestas, | Quanuis et madidis incumbant praela racemis.’ Calp. Ecl. 1-7.

[l3v] [Nemesianus, Marcus Aurelius Olympius: Bucolica.] Incipit: ‘[D]um fiscella tibi fluuiali, Titire, iu[n]co | Texitur et raucis resonant tua rura cicadis.’ Calp. Ecl. 8-11. The four eclogues of Nemesianus were considered to be by Calpurnius: see M. D. R[eeve], ‘Calpurnius and Nemesianus', Texts and Transmissions, 37-8.

[l8r] [Colophon.]

[m1r] Gregorius, Publius; Tifernas: [Carmina.] Incipit: ‘[H]ic meliore Lyra maiori hic carmine Clio | Adsis sancta, precor. Nam parui magna mouemus.’

Imprint

Imprint: Venice: [Printer of Ausonius], 7 Dec. 1472. Folio.

Remarks: On this edition see Prete pp. xxxv–xxxvi, C. F. Bühler, ‘The First Edition of Ausonius', Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 41 (1947), 60 and Clifford C. Rattey, ‘Ausonius, Decimus Magnus: Opera. Venice: [Epon. Press] 1472', Library, 5th ser., 5 (1951), 270-1.

Collation

Collation: [a⁶ b–h⁸ i¹² k–n⁸].

References

ISTC: ia01401000

GW: GW 3090;

Hain: HC 2176;

Goff: Goff A‑1401;

BMC: BMC V 211;

Proctor: Pr 4230;

Others: CIBN A‑765; Sheppard 3399.

LCN: 13958633

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