Nazarius (rhetorician)
Nazarius,, was a Roman and a Latin rhetorician and panegyrist. He was, according to Ausonius, a professor of rhetoric at Burdigala.
The extant speech of which he is undoubtedly the author was delivered in 321 CE to celebrate the fifteenth anniversary of the accession of Constantine the Great, and the fifth of his son Constantine's admission to the rank of Caesar. The preceding speech, celebrating the victory of Constantine over Maxentius, delivered in 313 CE at Augusta Treverorum, has often been attributed to Nazarius, but the difference in style and vocabulary, and the more distinctly Christian coloring of Nazarius's speech, are against this.
