Death & Dying
Professors XXVI. — The Poet
Translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White (1919–21) · From Book V. — The Professors of Bordeaux
Fare ye well, shades of famous rhetoricians: fare ye well, worthy teachers,, whether it were history, or poetry, or eloquence in the courts that made you famous; or whether medicine or Plato's system won you undying renown. And if any care of the living please the dead, and if the tribute of their survivors please them, then take the sad homage of my verse, a fabric of tears and sighs. Undisturbed may your ashes keep their place within the tomb, may the memory of your names live on until that other age return in which, by grace of God our judge, we all shall share!
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Ausonius, Decimus Magnus. “Professors XXVI. — The Poet.” Translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/ausonius/65/.
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Ausonius, Decimus Magnus. “Professors XXVI. — The Poet.” Translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/ausonius/65/.
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