Rome

De Reditu Suo

De Reditu Suo

A pagan Roman aristocrat's elegiac poem describing his sea voyage home to Gaul after serving as prefect of Rome mourns a city he still imagines as eternal, written within a few years of the Visigothic sack that had already shown otherwise.

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