What colour are they now, thy quiet waters?
The evening star has brought the evening light,
And filled the river with the green hillside;
The hill-tops waver in the rippling water,
Trembles the absent vine and swells the grape
In thy clear crystal.
Многое прощай другим, но ничего себе.
Начал — полдела свершил. Пусть ещё половина осталась, снова начни, и тогда всё доведёшь до конца.
Ausonius must be read to be believed! As poet, no subject is too trivial for him; as courtier, no flattery too excessive.
Главное всюду — начать; начало — важнейшая часть дел.
It is the things which Ausonius reveals unconsciously that win him liking, not those which he sets out to celebrate with a kind of innocent pomp: not the chair of rhetoric at twenty-five, nor the imperial tutorship in his fifties, nor the consulship at sixty-nine, but that he loved and taught rhetoric all his life, and kept his simplicity.
The poetical fame of Ausonius condemns the taste of his age.
Часто большое приданое вносит досадный раздор в брак.