Bathanarius
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.[1] 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.[1]
Augustine of Hippo retells a story he had been told by bishop Severus of Milev, who had seen Bathanarius doing a trick with a magnet during a party.[2]
Notes
- Zosimus V.37.6.
- Augustine, Civitas Dei, 21.4.
Sources
- "Bathanarius", Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, Volume 2, Cambridge University Press, 1992, ISBN 0-521-20159-4, p. 221.
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