(Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza, 2009) Rogowski, Juliusz
This article contains an analysis of the Gratiarum actio of Ausonius and examines the way, in which
speaker and former teacher of the Emperor Gratian presents himself. Ausonius is very proud of the
position which he achieved and he uses different arguments to make this position clear. He explains
all his honors and political career as a result of being tutor to the young Augustus. Gratian is bound
to him by obligations of pietas, so that the self-presentation of Ausonius makes no damage to the
picture of the Emperor.