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An ancient name of Italy; so called from Auson, son of Ulysses, and father of the Ausoʹnēs.
“All the green delights Ausonia pours.”
Thomson: Summer, 956.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.