MAMERTINUS, CLAUDIUS

flourished AD 360 Roman official, author of a panegyric on the emperor Julian delivered at Constantinople in AD 362 in the form of a gratiarum actio (thanksgiving) for the orator's elevation to the consulship. Mamertinus had already held high office under Julian's patronage and later was governor of Italy, Africa, and Illyria, but his career was terminated in AD 368 by a charge of embezzlement.