Sidonius Apollinaris, 431 (or thereabouts) to 479 or perhaps a few years later.
Much had happened between the death of Ausonius and his birth.

The lights were going out all over Europe.

Barbarian kingdoms had been planted in Gaul and Spain, Rome herself had been sacked by the Goths; and in his lifetime the collapse went on, ever more swiftly.

He was a young man of twenty when the ultimate horror broke upon the West, the inroad of Attila and the Huns.

That passed away, but when he was twenty-four the Vandals sacked Rome.