Death & Dying
Professors — Preface
Translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White (1919–21) · From Book V. — The Professors of Bordeaux
Your memories, too, I will recall as famous men now dead, whom no kinship linked with me, but renown, and the love of our dear country, and zeal of learning, and the industrious toil of teaching. Perchance one day another in the same way may make my shade his theme, and after my example will seek to do a pious deed.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Ausonius, Decimus Magnus. “Professors — Preface.” Translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/ausonius/39/.
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Ausonius, Decimus Magnus. “Professors — Preface.” Translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/ausonius/39/.
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