On usurpers

Title(s):
  • On usurpers
  • De imperatoribus res novas molitis
    (De imperatoribus res novas molitis, On emperors who went up in arms)
Author:
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.
Edition - Translation:
Fragments:
  • R.P.H. Green (1991) The works of Ausonius. Oxford: 720.
Users:
Bibliography:
  • J.-D. Berger, J. Fontaine, P.L. Schmidt (2020) Die Literatur im Zeitalter des Theodosius (374-430 n. Chr.). Volume One. Munich: 623-625.
  • Al. Cameron (2011) The last pagans of Rome. Oxford.
  • R.P.H. Green (1981) 'Marius Maximus and Ausonius' Caesares'. The Classical Quarterly 31: 226-236.
  • H. Sivan (1992) 'The historian Eusebius (of Nantes)'. The Journal of Hellenic Studies 112: 158-163.