Claudius Mamertinus () was an official in the

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. In late 361 he took part in the Chalcedon tribunal to condemn the ministers of

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, and in 362, he was made

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as a reward by the new Emperor Julian; on January 1 of that year he delivered a panegyric in

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by way of thanks to the Emperor. The text of this is extant, preserved in the . Claudius Mamertinus later went on to become praetorian prefect of

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, and

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before being removed from public office in 368 for embezzlement. The panegyric text is followed by two panegyrics from three quarters of a century earlier, addressed to the Emperor

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(the first delivered in 289 and the second in 290 or 291). The text of the that has survived also attributes these to Claudius Mamertinus; it is unclear whether there was an older orator of the same name or the text is corrupt. They have also been attributed to Eumenius but later scholarship disputes that attribution.C.E.V. Nixon / Barbara Saylor Rodgers: ''In Praise of Later Roman Emperors'', Berkeley 1994.

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* The "Gratiarum Actio Juliano Augusto" anegyric to Julianin Migne's ''

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'', Vol. XVIII, hosted a
''Documenta Catholica Omnia''
and the Latin Wikisource {{DEFAULTSORT:Claudius Mamertinus 4th-century Roman consuls Mamertinus Praetorian prefects of Italy Praetorian prefects of the Illyricum