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Author: Ausonii, D. Magni; (Ausonius, Decimus Magnus).
Title: Opera, ex Doctor. Virorum Emendatione.
Language: Text in Latin.
Publisher: Amstelaedami (Amsterdam), J. Wetstenium, 1750.
Size : 5 " X 3 ".
Pages: 233 pages + index.
Binding: Very good original full calf leather binding (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed - as shown, small chip to lower part of the spine - as shown)  under a removable protective mylar cover.
Content: Very good content (bright and tight, some light foxing and staining, ink stamp of a previous owner on lower margin of Westin's catalog - as shown).
Illustrations: Including a very nice engraved title page.

The book: Rare 18th-century Latin edition of the work of Roman poet AUSONIUS.

The author: Decimus or Decimius Magnus Ausonius (c. 310 – c. 395) was a Roman poet and teacher of rhetoric from Burdigala in Aquitaine, modern Bordeaux, France. For a time he was tutor to the future emperor Gratian, who afterward bestowed the consulship on him. His best-known poems are Mosella, a description of the river Moselle, and Ephemeris, an account of a typical day in his life. His many other verses show his concern for his family, friends, teachers, and circle of well-to-do acquaintances and his delight in the technical handling of meter.