Once you have let a poem out of your hands, you have renounced all your rights a speech delivered Or do you fear the venom of is common property. mouth than to keep the secret of a brilliant work. 1 to equestrian THE EPISTLES But in this I think you are excessively modest, that you complain of me for playing traitor to your For it is easier to hold hot coals in one's book. Roseius Gallus, a freedman of Lanuvium, was raised rank by Sulla and defended by Cicero in a His fame as a comic actor made his speech still extant. quod si iactantiae fugax garrulum indicem pertimescis, praesta etiam tu silentium mihi, ut tuto simulem nostra esse, quae scripseris. scriptores ea gloriam Ambivio Ergo tali negotio expende otium tuum et inn is voluminibus ieiunia nostra sustenta. summatim quidem tulerunt, Roscio tamen atque ceterisque actoribus fama non defuit. fectat, qui aliena propter eomoediis in pacto societatem laudis ad- bene dicta primus enuntiat. novi ego, quae sit prurigo emuttiendi operis, (juod etsi tibi nam quodam probaris. fac periculum silentii mei, quod exhibere opto, tamen spondere non audeo. certe aliquod didascalicum seu protrepticum nostro quoque nomini carmen adiudica. : vereris aemuli a facilius est ar- luculenti opens te oratio profectum ear- publicata venena lectoris, res ne admorsu duri dentis uratur ? tibi uni locorum nihil gratia praestitit aut dempsit ad hoc libellus tuns ingratis scaevo cuique proboque laudabilis proinde cassas dehinc seclude formidines et in- invidia. comprimere quam cum seme! omne posuisti servare secretum. quod libelli tui dentes favillas ore nam arguis proditorem. USON1US Set in eo mihi verecundus nimio plus videre. This one thing, however, I must tell you as an absolute fact that there is no man alive whom I love more than you, so deeply pledged in honest affection have vou always held me. Moreover, since you do nothing consciously for the sake of display, I must beware of praising your natural good qualities as though they were studied. in your praise, I shall seem to be " scratching your - back" and to be copying more than complimenting your address to me. Indeed you so far surpass all others in eloquence that I fear to write in reply you so generously approve my essays If I say more that I am glad not to keep silence. loss to decide which to admire the more the graces of your diction or of your disposition. was in them a certain gaiety overlaid with honey from Tully's hive, and some eulogy on my discourse And so I am at a flattering rather than deserved. Symmachus to Ausonius Your learned pages, which I received while stayFor there ing at Capua, brought me sheer delight. neminem sic esse vadatum me AUSONIUS BOOK XVIII THE EPISTLES I. unum hoc tamen a nobis indubitata veritate cognosce, mortalium quern prae te diligam honorabili amore tenuisti. ostentandi gratia facis, verendum est genuina in te bona tamquam adfectata laudare. benigne nostra plura de te prae- ita si mutuum quam scabere et magis imitator tui simul quod ipse nihil probator. quippe ita facundia antistas ceteris, ut sit formido rescribere conprobas, ut libeat dicem, videbor esse adloquii non tacere. quid igitur magis mirer, sententiae incertus addubito, ornamenta oris an pectoris tui. tri- erat quippe in buerunt, quae Capuae melle festivitas et sermonis mei his oblita Tulliano non tarn vera, quam blatlda laudatio. Merum - Symmachus Ausonio mihi gaudium eruditionis tuae scripta locatus accepi. 219 appendix to acsonius 271 the eccharisticus of paulinus index pell.*:us 293 353 / AUSONIUS OPUSCULA VOL. the thanksgiving of ausonius oi bordeaux, the vasate, for his consulship, addressed to the emperor gratian. EPIGRAMS MATTERS OF 3 AUSONIUS ON VARIOUS 155 - book xx. MCMX X I PR Czzi fa 1/2 CONTENTS BOOK - THE XVIII. SOMETIME SCHOLAR OF WAI'HAM COLLEGE, OXFORD TWO VOLUMES IN II WITH THE EUCHARIST1CUS OF PAULINTJS PELL^EUS LONDON : NEW YORK WILLIAM HEINEMANN : G. AUSONIUS WITH AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION BY HUGH EVELYN WHITE, G. : LOEB CLASSICAL LIBRARY EDITED BY 3 h.D., LL.D.
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