Title(s):
- On usurpers
- De imperatoribus res novas molitis(De imperatoribus res novas molitis, On emperors who went up in arms)
Period covered:
Decius-Diocletian
Language:
Latin
State of Preservation:
Fragmentary
Genre:
- Poetry (general)
- Secular history (breviarium)
Remarks:
The work is only attested in the catalogue of Giovanni Mansionario, an early-fourteenth-century scholar. Ausonius' poem could have been linked to his Caesars (Green 1981: 231). According to Cameron (2011: 404-405), it celebrated the series of usurpers who created the so-called Gallic Empire.
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