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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