The True Mistress

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The True Mistress

Poet(s)

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

Credits

Translator

Doubleday, Thomas

Metadata research and editing

DVPP Project Team

Source

Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 8:48, 682, March 1821.

First line

Wild friend, a mistress ought to be

Original language

Latin

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Elegy XXVII. Book II
Elegy II. Book III
To Corsica
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To Corduba
“Omnia Tempus edax depascitur”
Book VI
Ausonius to Paulinus. Epistle XXV
Venus Anadyomene
To Galla
The Martyrdom of St Eulalia. Hymn IX
On a Baptismal Font. Hymn XIII
On One Who Had Never Left His Home
Fescennine Verses on the Nuptials of Honorius

Notes and attribution research

Poem included in Translations from the Less Familiar Latin Classics. No. V. Ausonius by T. D. (678-682) (KF2). Translator attribution: T. D. is the pseudonym in Blackwood’s for Thomas Doubleday. See A Dictionary of Literary Pseudonyms in the English Language, edited by T. J. Carty, second edition, Routledge, 2015, p. 406. (AC).

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Numeric id of this poem in the DVPP collection: 9177

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The True Mistress