Victorinus is the recorded name of a

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probably serving between 395 and 406. He is mentioned by the Gaul

Rutilius Claudius Namatianus Rutilius Claudius Namatianus (fl. 5th century) was a Roman Imperial poet, best known for his Latin poem, ''De reditu suo'', in elegiac metre, describing a coastal voyage from Rome to Gaul in 416. The poem was in two books; the exordium of the first ...

in his ''De reditu'' i, 493-510 who had met him later in

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around 417. Victorinus had probably ruled prior to the usurpation of Marcus in 406. After serving in Britain and Italy, he had retired to Aquitania, leaving in 409 or 414 due to barbarian raids and settling in Rome.

References

*Salway, P Roman Britain, Oxford, 1986 {{DEFAULTSORT:Victorinus Roman governors of Britain 4th-century Romans 5th-century Romans 4th-century births 5th-century deaths Vicarii