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MAMERTINUS, CLAUDIUS (4th century A.D.)

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MAMERTINUS, See also:CLAUDIUS (4th See also:century A.D.) , one of the Latin panegyrists. After the See also:death of See also:Julian, by whom he was evidently regarded with See also:special favour, he was See also:praefect of See also:Italy (365) under See also:Valens and Valentinian, but was subsequently (368) deprived of his See also:office for See also:embezzlement. He was the author of an extant speech of thanks to Julian for raising him to the consulship, delivered on the 1st of See also:January 362 at See also:Constantinople. Two panegyrical addresses (also extant) to Maximian (See also:emperor A.D. 286—305) are attributed to an older magister Mamertinus, but it is probable that the corrupt MS. superscription contains the word memoriae, and that they are by an unknown magister memoriae (an See also:official whose See also:duty consisted in communicating imperial rescripts and decisions to the public). The first of these was delivered on the birthday of See also:Rome (See also:April 21, 289), probably at Maximian's See also:palace at See also:Augusta Trevirorum (Treves), the second in 290 or 291, on the birthday of the emperor. By some they are attributed to See also:Eumenius (q.v.) who was a magister memoriae and the author of at least one (if not more) panegyrics. The three speeches will be found in E. Bahrens, Panegyrici See also:latini (1874); see also See also:Teuffel-See also:Schwabe, Hist. of See also:Roman Literature (Eng trans.), § 417, 7.

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