Androgyonous Beauty: Ausonius Epig. 107

Dum dubitat Natura marem faceretne puellam,

Factus es, O pulcher, paene puella, puer.

--Ausonius, Epig. 107

While Nature wonders if she made a boy or a girl,

O lovely one, you were made a pretty--almost a girl--boy.

AUSONIUS

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Name:  Decimius Magnus Ausonius

Date:  4^th century CE

Works:  Letters, Mosella

 

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 Ausonius was a Roman poet from Aquitania, Gaul [modern France] who lived during the 4^th century CE. He is best known for his epic poem Mosella, which describes the Moselle River, and his Epistles, a series of literary poems between himself and the Christian poet Paulinus.

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