Database: Clavis Historicorum Antiquitatis Posterioris (CHAP)

Title(s):

Caesars
Caesares
(Caesares, Caesars)

Author:

Ausonius

Period covered:

1st c. B.C.4th c.

Language:

Latin

State of Preservation:

Partial

Genre:

Remarks:

It is not certain when Ausonius wrote the Caesars (Green 1991: 558). Since he says that he has treated all the emperors he knew, it is difficult to accept that his work stopped with Elagabalus, as the text does now (even if it is not impossible; see Green 1981: 231). It supposedly went as far as Gratian's reign or the defeat of Magnus Maximus (Green 1991: 557-558). The heading tetrarcha before the tetrastich of Nerva may be the remnant of the Tetrasticha post Suetonium (Green 1981: 226-227).

Edition - Translation:

R.P.H. Green (1991) The works of Ausonius. Oxford: 161-168.

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Bibliography:

(1995) Clavis patrum Latinorum (CPL) 1406
F. Della Corte (1975) 'I "Caesares" di Ausonio e Mario Massimo'. In: Atti del Convegno Gli storiografi latini tramandati in frammenti, ed. S. Boldrini et al., Studi Urbinati 49.1: 483-491. (= Opuscola 6 (1978): 307-315).
R.P.H. Green (1981) 'Marius Maximus and Ausonius' Caesares'. The Classical Quarterly 31: 226-236.
R.P.H. Green (1999) 'Ausonius' Fasti and Caesares revisited'. The Classical Quarterly 49.2: 573-578.
S. Prete (1985) 'La tradition textuelle et les manuscrits d'Ausone'. Revue française d'histoire du livre 46: 99-157.