NAMATIANUS

Form: Claudius Rutilius.

A Roman poet, by birth a Gaul and a pagan, who was prcefectus urbi under Honorius in A.D. 416. After the sack of Rome by Alaric he returned to his native country, ravaged at that time by the Visigoths, and described his journey home in two books, De Reditu suo, of which the beginning of the first and the end of the second have perished. The poem is pure and correct in language and metrical form, and is interesting on account of its pathetic description of the misfortunes of the time.