[2] About 310-393; _grammaticus_ and _rhetor_ at Bordeaux, which was the greatest, perhaps, of the schools of Gaul. Editions: Schenkl, Berlin (MGH, Auctores antiquissimi, V. ii), 1883; Peiper, Leipzig (Teubner), 1886; H. G. E. White, London & New York (Loeb series, 2 vols.), 1919-1921, with translation (used in this section), introduction, notes, and select bibliography; full bibliography in Marie José Byrne, _Prolegomena to an edition of the works of Ausonius_, New York, 1916. [3] III. xxvii, last sentence of footnote 1. [4] Chapter I. B. 1. [5] See Chapter I. B. 2, especially a. (1); and for the earlier _declamatio_, ARP 87-101. [6] Palmæ forensis et camenarum decus. V. ii. 7. Facundum doctumque virum, seu lege metrorum Condita seu prosis solveret orsa modis. _Ibid._ iii. 3. [7] Grammatice ad Scaurum atque Probum, promptissime rhetor. _Ibid._ xx. 7. Grammatici in studio vel rhetoris aut in utroque. _Ibid._ xxv. 3. Nos [i.e. Ausonius] ad grammaticen studium convertimus et mox Rhetorices etiam, quod satis, attigimus. I. i. 15. [8] Possem absolute dicere, Sed dulcius circumloquar Diuque fando perfruar. Lines 7-9 of the poem in _Epist._ XII. [9] Ego volvo libros uberes, Instarque densæ grandinis Torrente lingua perstrepo. ... Cum maxime nunc proloquor Circumloquentis ambitu. II. vii. 7. [10] Incessu gravis et verbis ingentibus. V. xvii. 2. [11] Quis ita Æsopi venustatem, quis sophisticas Isocratis conclusiones, quis ad enthymemata Demosthenis aut opulentiam Tullianam aut proprietatem nostri Maronis accedat? _Epist._ ii. [12] His most considerable prose piece is the _Gratiarum actio ad Gratianum_. [13] Mox schola et auditor multus prætextaque pubes Grammatici nomen divitiasque dedit. V. xviii. 7. [14] About 430-484; Bishop of Auvergne, 471; educated at Lyon. Editions: Mohr, Leipzig (Teubner), 1895, and MGH. Biography by Chaix (l’Abbé L.-A.), _St. Sidoine Apollinaire et son siècle_, 2 vols., Paris, 1867; translation, with introduction and notes, by Dalton (O. M.), Oxford, 1915. For his influence see Manitius, Boissier, Roger. It was doubtless enhanced, if not revived, by _dictamen_, for which see below, Chapter VIII. Alain de Lille puts him beside Quintilian and Symmachus among “rhetoricæ auctores alii” (_Anticlaudianus_, III. iii). John of Salisbury refers to him in _Metalogicus_ (PL. 199: 831 A, 865 D) and _Policraticus_ (see the index to Webb’s ed.). [15] See above, Chapter I, B. 2. a. and ARP, IV. ii. A.