Ausonia is a Greek and Virgilian poetical name for Italy (Aeneid vii.795), recalling the territory of the Ausones, an Italic tribe of southern Italy given the poetical founder Auson, a son of Ulysses. The Romans called them the Aurunci. A sculpture of Virgil, probably from the 1st century AD. Publius Vergilius Maro (October 15, 70 BC–19 BC), known in English as Virgil or Vergil, is a Latin poet, the author of the Eclogues, the Georgics and the Aeneid, the last being an epic poem of twelve books that... The Aeneid is a Latin epic written by Virgil in the 1st century BCE (between 29 and 19 BCE) that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who traveled to Italy where he became the ancestor of the Romans. ... Aurunci, the name given by the Romans to a tribe which in historical times occupied only a strip of coast on either side of the Mons Massicus between the Volturnus and the Liris, although it must at an earlier period have extended over a considerably wider area. ... Odysseus and the Sirens. ... Aurunci, the name given by the Romans to a tribe which in historical times occupied only a strip of coast on either side of the Mons Massicus between the Volturnus and the Liris, although it must at an earlier period have extended over a considerably wider area. ...

RMS Ausonia, launched in 1921, was one of Cunard's six post-World War I ocean linersfor the Canadian service. She made her maiden voyage, Liverpool-Montreal, on 31 August 1922 and the following season went into service on the London-Canada route. Ausonia was requisitioned as an armed merchant cruiser in September 1939, decommissioned in 1964, and scrapped in Spain the next year. Cunard may refer to: Samuel Cunard (1787–1865), British shipping magnate. ...

SS Ausonia was commissioned by Adriatica Lines for its Trieste-Egypt-Lebanon service. She was launched by Cantieri Riuniti dell' Adriatico at Monfalcone on August 5, 1956, and delivered on September 23, 1957. She was rapidly fitted out and commenced service in October 1957. Ports of call were Trieste, Venice, Brindisi, Alexandria, Beirut, Piraeus, Bari, Venice, and Trieste. Location within Italy Trieste (Latin Tergeste, Italian Trieste, German and Friulian Triest, Slovenian and Croatian Trst) is a city and port in northeastern Italy, capital of the autonome region Friuli-Venezia Giulia and Trieste province, with a population of 211,184 (2001). ... Monfalcone (Tržič in Slovene) is a small coastal city on the North-East of Italy, Bay of Triest ...

63 Ausonia is an asteroid. 63 Ausonia is a large main belt asteroid. ...

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• RMS Ausonia: capsule history
• SS Ausonia: pictorial history
• (63) Ausonia