Bathanarius (died 408) was a politician of the
Western Roman Empire, ''comes Africae'' and brother-in-law of
Stilicho.
Life
Bathanarius married a sister of the powerful general
Stilicho.
[Zosimus V.37.6.] He is attested as ''
comes Africae'' since 401. In 408, when Stilicho was put to death by order of Emperor
Honorius, Bathanarius was executed by imperial order and succeeded by
Heraclianus.
Augustine of Hippo
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, who had seen Bathanarius doing a trick with a
magnet during a party.
[Augustine, ''Civitas Dei'', 21.4.]
Notes
Sources
* "Bathanarius", ''
Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire'', Volume 2, Cambridge University Press, 1992, {{ISBN, 0-521-20159-4, p. 221.
408 deaths
5th-century Romans
Comites rei militaris
Year of birth unknown