Rutilius Namatianus

Japanese: ルティリウス･ナマティアヌス（英語表記）Rutilius Namatianus

Latin poet of late antiquity. Date of birth and death unknown. Full name Rutilius Claudius Namatianus. A Roman aristocrat, probably from Toulouse in Gaul, he was well versed in grammar, rhetoric, and Greek. Although a pagan, he served as chief secretary (412) and prefect of Rome (414) under the reign of Emperor Honorius. At the end of September 417, he left Rome and returned home by sea to rebuild his own territory in Gaul, which had been ravaged by the Germanic peoples. Two volumes of travel poems remain that describe this journey in a refined elegiac form, but the beginning of the first volume has been lost and the second volume ends at just 68 lines.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

古代末期のラテン詩人。生没年不詳。フルネームはRutilius Claudius Namatianus。ガリアのおそらくトゥールーズ出身のローマ貴族で，文法，修辞学，ギリシア語をよく習得し，異教徒ではあったが，ホノリウス帝治下で書記官長(412)やローマ市長官(414)を歴任した。417年9月末にローマ市を離れ，ゲルマンに荒らされたガリアの自領を建て直すべく海路で帰郷。このときの模様を洗練されたエレゲイア詩形でつづった紀行詩2巻が残っているが，第1巻の冒頭は消失し，第2巻はわずか68行で終わっている。

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