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Ausonian, a.|ɔːˈsəʊnɪən|
[f. L. Ausonia Lower Italy, poet. Italy, Gr. αὐσονία poet. Italy, f. αὔσων, son of Ulysses, who was fabled to have settled there.]
Of or pertaining to Ausonia or to the Ausonians, the primitive inhabitants of middle and lower Italy; hence, Italian. Also n., a native of Ausonia, an Italian.
1607Topsell Foure-footed Beasts 481 The Masilian and Ausonian shepherds were..afraid of this lion. 1667Milton P.L. i. 739 And in Ausonian land Men call'd him Mulciber. 1775Ash Dict. Suppl., Ausonian, s. 1821Byron Proph. Dante ii. 131 p. 233 The Ausonian soil. 1826K. H. Digby Morus 307 All that in this beautiful world is fair and lovely, mountains, woods, rivers, and Ausonian skys [sic]. 1850Tennyson Pal. Art in Poems (ed. 6) 115 Or..stay'd the Ausonian king to hear Of wisdom and of law. 1876Disraeli Let. to Lady Chesterfield 31 Mar. in Buckle Life (1920) V. xii. 472 The spring of Ausonian lands. 1882Encycl. Brit. XIV. 344/2 The Auruncans, or Ausonians as they were termed by Greek writers. |