Ausonius, LCL 115: Ausonius I, Books 1-17
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Number of quotes: 15
Book ID: 133 Page: 3
Section: 2B2,3C,3D
Book I Prefatory PiecesParagraph I Ausonius to his Reader, Greeting
My father practised medicine - the only one of all the arts which produced a god;
Pastor John’s note: This is at the end of his life, long after he became a Christian.
PJ Note: Check Ausonius for J word
Quote ID: 2925
Time Periods: 4
Book ID: 133 Page: 7
Section: 2B2,3C,3D
Book I Prefatory PiecesParagraph III A Letter of the Emperor Theodosius
The Emperor Theodosius to his father Ausonius, greeting.
My affection for you, and my admiration for your ability and learning, which could not possibly be higher, have caused me, my dearest father, to adopt as my own a custom followed by other princes and to send you under my own hand a friendly word. . .
Quote ID: 2926
Time Periods: 4
Book ID: 133 Page: 9
Section: 2B2,3C,3D
Book I Prefatory PiecesParagraph IV To my Lord and the Lord of All, Theodosius the Emperor, from Ausonius, your Servant
If yellow Ceres should bid the husbandman commit seed to the ground, or Mars order some general to take up arms, or Neptune command a fleet to put out to sea unrigged, then to obey confidently is as much a duty as to hesitate is the reverse.
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Behests of mortals call for deliberation: what a god commands perform without wavering.
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It is not safe to disoblige a god;
Quote ID: 2927
Time Periods: 4
Book ID: 133 Page: 15
Section: 3C1
Book II The Daily Round or The Doings of a Whole DayParagraph II The Interlude Line 6
I do not call for incense to be burnt nor for any slice of honey-cake: hearths of green turf I leave for the altars of vain gods. I must pray to God and to the Son of God most high, that co-equal{2} Majesty united in one fellowship with the Holy Spirit.
PJ Note: Check Ausonius for the J word.
Quote ID: 2928
Time Periods: 4
Book ID: 133 Page: 17
Section: 2B1,3C,3C1,3D
Book II The Daily Round or the Doings of a Whole DayParagraph III The Prayer Line 6-12
He only may behold thee and, face to face, hear thy bidding and sit at thy fatherly right-hand who is himself the Maker of all things, himself the Cause of all created things, himself the Word of God, the Word which is God, who was before the world which he was to make, begotten at that time when Time was not yet, who came into being before the Sun’s beams and the bright Morning-Star enlightened the sky.
Quote ID: 2929
Time Periods: 4
Book ID: 133 Page: 23
Section: 2B2
Book II The Daily Round or the Doings of a Whole DayParagraph III The Prayer Lines 79-85
These prayers of a soul devout, albeit trembling with dark sense of guilt, claim for thine own before the eternal Father, thou Son of God who mayest be entreated, Saviour, God and Lord, Mind, Glory, Word and Son, Very God of Very God, Light of Light, who remainest with the eternal Father, reigning throughout all ages, whose praise the harmonious songs of tuneful David echo forth, until respondent voices rend the air with “Amen”.
Pastor John’s note: But . . . . the “J” word!!!
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Quote ID: 2930
Time Periods: 34
Book ID: 133 Page: 29
Section: 3C,3D,4B
Book II The Daily Round or the Doings of a Whole DayParagraph VIII Line 22
They say the heavenly bard {1}
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{1} sc. Virgil (Aen. vi. 282 ff.)
Quote ID: 2931
Time Periods: 4
Book ID: 133 Page: 35
Section: 3C,3D,2A4
Book III Personal PoemsParagraph II Easter Verses Composed for the Emperor Line 1
Now return the holy rites of Christ, who brought us our salvation, and godly zealots keep their solemn fasts.
Pastor John’s note: No “J” word
Quote ID: 2932
Time Periods: 4
Book ID: 133 Page: 37
Section: 3C,3D,2B2
Book III Personal PoemsParagraph II Easter Verses Composed for the Emperor Line 17
Thou, gracious Father, grantest to the world thy Word, who is thy Son, and God, in all things like thee and equal with thee, very God of very God, and living God of the source of life.
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Quote ID: 2933
Time Periods: 34
Book ID: 133 Page: 49
Section: 3C,3D,2B2
Book III Personal PoemsParagraph V A Solemn Prayer of Ausonius as Consul-Designate, when he assumed the Insignia of Office on the Eve of the Kalends of January
Come, Janus; come, New Year; come, Sun, with strength renewed!
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soon to behold Ausonius enthroned in state, consul of Rome. What hast thou now beneath the Imperial dignity itself to marvel at? That famous Rome, that dwelling of Quirinus, and that Senate whose bordered roes glow with rich purple, from this point date their seasons in their deathless records.
Come, Janus; come, New Year; come, Sun, with strength renewed!
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Quote ID: 2934
Time Periods: 4
Book ID: 133 Page: 63
Section: 3C,3D,2B2
Book IV ParentaliaParagraph IV Caecilius Argicius Arborius, my Grandfather Line 1-3
Forsake not your sacred task, my duteous page: next after these let me celebrate the memory of my mother’s father, Arborius
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Quote ID: 2935
Time Periods: 34
Book ID: 133 Page: 65
Section: 2B2,3C,3D
Book IV ParentaliaParagraph IV Caecilius Argicius Arborius, my Grandfather Line 24
When you had lived a life of ninety years, you found how to be dreaded are the arrows of the goddess Chance. . .
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Quote ID: 2936
Time Periods: 4
Book ID: 133 Page: 137
Section: 2B2,3C,3D
Book V Poems Commemorating The Professors of BordeauxParagraph XXV Conclusion Line 5-6
For the living praise is a lure: to but cry their names will satisfy those within the tomb {4}.
[Footnote 4] To call aloud upon the dead was a recognised funerary rite: see Virgil, Aen. vi. 507
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Quote ID: 2937
Time Periods: 3
Book ID: 133 Page: xiv
Section: 2B2,3C,3C1,3D
IntroductionFurther, the conception of the Deity held by Ausonius was distinctly peculiar - as his less guarded references show. In the Easter Verses (Domest. ii. 24 ff.) the Trinity is a power transcending but not unlike the three Emperors; and in the Griphus (1. 88) the “tris deus unus” is advanced to enforce the maxim “ter bibe” in exactly the same tone as that in which the children of Rhea, or the three Gorgons are cited: for our author the Christian Deity was not essentially different from the old pagan gods.
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Quote ID: 2924
Time Periods: 4
Book ID: 133 Page: xiii
Section: 2B2,3C,3D
IntroductionWhen and how he adopted the new religion there is nothing to show; but certain of his poems make it clear that he professed and called himself a Christian, and such poems as the Oratio (Ephemeris iii.) and Domestica ii., which show a fairly extensive knowledge of the Scriptures, sometimes mislead the unwary to assume that Ausonius was a devout and pious soul. But in these poems he is deliberately airing his Christianity: he has, so to speak, dressed himself for church. His everyday attitude was clearly very different.
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Nor does Christianity enter directly or indirectly into the general body of his literary work (as distinguished from the few “set pieces”). In the Parentalia there is no trace of Christian sentiment - and this though he is writing of his nearest and dearest: the rite which gives a title to the book is pagan, the dead “rejoice to hear their names pronounced” (Parent. Pref. 11), they are in Elysium (id. xviii, 12) according to pagan orthodoxy; but in his own mind Ausonius certainly regards a future existence as problematical (Parent. xxii. 15 and especially Proff. i. 39 ff.).
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Quote ID: 2923
Time Periods: 4
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