History & Politics
Caesares: Quatrains XXII. — Bassianus Antoninus or Caracalla
Translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White (1919–21) · From Book XIV. — Ausonius on the Twelve Caesars
Unlike thy father in manliness and still less like him - by whose usurped name thou dost style thyself — thou, guilty of thy brother's death and punished with a bloody end to thy jeering people art rather Caracalla.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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MLA
Ausonius, Decimus Magnus. “Caesares: Quatrains XXII. — Bassianus Antoninus or Caracalla.” Translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/ausonius/180/.
Chicago
Ausonius, Decimus Magnus. “Caesares: Quatrains XXII. — Bassianus Antoninus or Caracalla.” Translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/ausonius/180/.
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