Rutilius Claudius Namatianus
Poet and politician (4th to 5th century CE)
- Lived
- 400–500
- Country
- Ancient Rome
Updated September 2026
About Rutilius Claudius Namatianus
Rutilius Claudius Namatianus was a Roman Imperial poet, best known for his Latin poem, De reditu suo, in elegiac metre, describing a coastal voyage from Rome to Gaul in 417. The poem was in two books; the exordium of the first and the greater part of the second have been lost. What remains consists of about seven hundred lines.
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