ausonian

Of ancient Ausonia or the Ausonians.

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.

master of the glorious art of proud Ausonian song

Italian.

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.

Of or relating to the ancient poet Ausonius.

An ancient inhabitant of middle or lower Italy.

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

An Italian.