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Ausonius sets out the rules of the game for making a "cento," * a poem "completely constructed from a variety of passages" of something else, and meaning something different. Ideally, one puts together half lines, or to one line with the following half one finds a different concluding half line that seems to fit.
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A Nuptial Cento Modeled on That of Decius Magnus Ausonius (310 A.D.-Ca 394. A.D.) Journal article by David R. Slavitt; New England Review, Vol. 19, 1998. Read A Nuptial Cento Modeled on That of Decius Magnus Ausonius (310 A.D.-Ca 394. A.D.) at Questia library. ... A cento, in any event, is a poem composed of fragments of...
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Notes towards a History of The Cento ... The cento as a form was first developed in ancient Greece when poets started stitching together their own poems entirely from lines or verses taken from Homer. This form of poetry later became known as the cento, from the Latin word for patchwork, or perhaps from kentron,
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Professor and poet (310-394) ... "Cento nuptials" (an ingenious concept of the same origin, the result of a wager made with Valentinian), extracts from Virgil, the conclusion of which (consummatio matrimonii) is not very refined (368); "Taecnopaegnion", collection of verses in which each ends in a monosyllable;
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Scott McGill, Virgil Recomposed. The Mythological and Secular Centos in Antiquity. American Classical Studies, 48. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. 260. ISBN 0-19-517564-6. $74.00. ... In this perspective M. convincingly interprets Encolpius' cento in Petronius Sat. 132.11, Capitolinus' account of Macrinus in...
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the infamous Nuptial Cento of Ausonius was translated using lines of Shakespeare, i believe (who is to English centos as Virgil was to those in Latin); & so there is yet a living trandition which functions like this imaginary language...
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Ausonius - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Decimus Magnus Ausonius (ca. 310–395) was a Latin poet and rhetorician, born at Burdigala (Bordeaux). Decimus Magnus Ausonius was born in Bordeaux in ca. 310. His father was a noted physician of Gree...
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