"It is the things which Ausonius reveals unconsciously that win him liking, not those which he sets out to celebrate w…"

"Monumenta fatiscunt: mors etiam saxis nominibusque venit."

"Omne aevum curae; cunctis sua displicet aetas."

"The poetical fame of Ausonius condemns the taste of his age."

"In the history of versification did anyone ever juggle so wildly well with iambics, sapphics, dactylics, anapestics, …"

"Ausonius must be read to be believed! As poet, no subject is too trivial for him; as courtier, no flattery too excess…"

"Multis terribilis timeto multos."

"Jejunis nil scribo: meum post pocula si quis legerit, hic sapiet. Sed magis hic sapiet, si dormiet: et putet ista som…"

"Quis color ille vadis, seras cum propulit umbras Hesperus et viridi perfudit monte Mosellam! tota natant crispis iuga…"

"Errantes silva in magna et sub luce maligna inter harundineasque comas gravidumque papaver et tacitos sine labe lacus…"