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Ausonia can refer to one of the following:
- Ausonia is a Greek and Virgilian poetical name for Italy recalling the territory of the Ausones, an Italic tribe of southern Italy given the poetical founder Auson, a son of Ulysses.
- RMS Ausonia, launched in 1921, was one of Cunard's six post-World War I ocean liners for 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.
- SS Ausonia is a liner 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 and Bari. Today the ship's name is Aegean Two.
- Ausonia, is a commune in the province of Frosinone, Latium, Italy.
- 63 Ausonia is an asteroid.
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