History & Politics
Caesares: Quatrains XIV. — Trajan
Translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White (1919–21) · From Book XIV. — Ausonius on the Twelve Caesars
Trajan comes to the throne in life's prime for war's renown more eminent for all else like his father. He also lacking offspring, takes for his partner by hazard of choice such an one as we allow worthy, but disallow as equal.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Ausonius, Decimus Magnus. “Caesares: Quatrains XIV. — Trajan.” Translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/ausonius/172/.
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Ausonius, Decimus Magnus. “Caesares: Quatrains XIV. — Trajan.” Translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/ausonius/172/.
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