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==List of works== * ''Epigrammata Ausonii de diversis rebus''. About 120 epigrams on various topics. * ''Ephemeris''. A description of the occupations of the day from morning to evening, in various meters, composed before 367. Only the beginning and the end are preserved. * ''Parentalia''. 30 poems of various lengths, mostly in elegiac meter, on deceased relations that were composed after his consulate, when he had already been a widower for 36 years. * ''Commemoratio professorum Burdigalensium'' or ''Professores''. A continuation of the ''Parentalia'', dealing with the famous teachers of his native Bordeaux whom he had known. * ''Epitaphia''. 26 epitaphs of heroes from the [[Trojan War]] translated from Greek * ''Caesares''. On the 12 emperors described by [[Suetonius]]. * ''[[Ordo urbium nobilium]]''. 14 pieces, dealing with 17 towns (Rome to Bordeaux), in hexameters, and composed after the downfall of Maximus in 388. * ''Ludus VII Sapientium''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/deciausonius01ausouoft/page/310/mode/2up?view=theater|title=Ausonius: Ludus Septem Sapientum}}</ref> A kind of puppet play in which the seven wise men appear successively and have their say. * The so-called ''Idyllia''. 20 pieces are grouped under this arbitrary title, the most famous of which is the ''Mosella''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://wiki.dickinson.edu/index.php?title=Ausonius_Mosella|title=Ausonius Mosella|work=dickinson.edu|access-date=2008-11-22|archive-date=2023-04-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230417001731/https://wiki.dickinson.edu/index.php?title=Ausonius_Mosella|url-status=dead}}</ref> It also includes: ** ''Griphus ternarii numeri'' ** ''De aetatibus Hesiodon'' ** ''Monosticha de aerumnis Herculis'' ** ''De ambiguitate eligendae vitae'' ** ''De viro bono'' ** ''EST et NON'' ** ''De rosis nascentibus'' (dubious) ** ''Versus paschales'' ** ''Epicedion in patrem'' ** ''Technopaegnion'' ** ''[[Cento (poetry)|Cento nuptialis]], composed of lines and half-lines of Vergil. ** ''[[Bissula]]'' ** ''Protrepticus'' ** ''Genethliacon'' * ''Eglogarum liber''. A collection of all kinds of astronomical and astrological versifications in epic and elegiac meter. * ''Epistolarum liber''. 25 verse letters in various meters. * ''Ad Gratianum gratiarum actio pro consulatu''. Prose speech of thanks to the emperor [[Gratian]] on the occasion of attaining the consulship, delivered at [[Treves]] in 379. * ''Periochae Homeri Iliadis et Odyssiae''. A prose summary of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, attributed to but probably not written by Ausonius. * ''Praefatiunculae''. Prefaces by the poet to various collections of his poems, including a response to the emperor [[Theodosius I]]'s request for his poems.
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