in *Ancient Geography*, a town of the Ausones, a people who ancienly occupied all the Lower Italy, from the Promontorium Cirecum down to the straits of Sicily (Livy), but were afterwards reduced to a much narrower compass; namely, between the Montes Cireci and Massici: nor did they occupy the whole of this, but other people were intermixed. Concerning Ansona or its remains there is nothing particular recorded.

**AUSONIA**, the ancient name of Italy, from its most ancient inhabitants the Ausones, (Virgil, Servius).