Ausonian

1. historicalnot comparableOf ancient Ausonia or the Ausonians.

   master of the glorious art of proud Ausonian song

   1887, Theodor Mommsen, William Purdie Dickson, The Provinces of the Roman Empire from Caesar to Diocletian, page 172

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   Sometimes they marked the form of the silk-haired and graceful capella, with its wreathing horn and bright grey eye—which, still beneath Ausonian skies, recalls the eclogues of Maro, browsing half-way up the hills; and the grapes, already purple with the smiles of the deepening summer, glowed out from the arched festoons, which hung pendent from tree to tree.

   1834, [Edward Bulwer-Lytton], chapter IX, in The Last Days of Pompeii. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […]; successor to Henry Colburn, →OCLC

2. not comparablepoeticItalian.

   Or hollowing one hand against his ear, / To list a foot-fall, ere he saw / The wood-nymph, stay'd the Ausonian king to hear / Of wisdom and of law.

   1832–1833, Alfred Tennyson, “[Poems. (Published 1832.)] The Palace of Art”, in Poems, 8th edition, London: Edward Moxon, […], published 1853, →OCLC, page 117

3. not comparableOf or relating to the ancient poet Ausonius.

plural Ausonians

1. historicalAn ancient inhabitant of middle or lower Italy.

   The Ausonians, the most ancient inhabitants of Italy, computed the day from midnight.

   1823, “Chronology”, in Encyclopaedia Britannica

2. poeticAn Italian.