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NAZARIUS (4th century A.D.)

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 319 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NAZARIUS (4th
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century A.D.)  , Latin rhetorician and panegyrist, was, according to
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Ausonius, a
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professor of
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rhetoric at Burdigala (
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Bordeaux) . The extant speech of which he is undoubtedly the author (in E . Bahrens, Panegyrici
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Latini, No . 1o) was delivered in 321 to celebrate the fifteenth anniversary of the
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accession of
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Constantine the
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Great, and the fifth of his son Constantine's
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admission to the
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rank of
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Caesar . The preceding speech (No . 9), celebrating the victory of Constantine over
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Maxentius, delivered in 313 at
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Augusta Trevirorum (
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Trier), has often been attributed to
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Nazarius, but the difference in
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style and vocabulary, and the more distinctly
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Christian colouring of Nazarius's speech, are against this . See M . Schanz, Geschichte der romischen Litteratur, iii . (1896) ;
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Teuffel-
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Schwabe, Hist. of
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Roman Literature (Eng. trans., 1900), 401 . 6 .

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