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Gallo-Roman aristocrat born c.ad 377, the son of a proconsul with estates in Aquitaine. In ad 414 he accepted office under the brief imperial usurpation of Attalus. After Attalus' downfall, Paulinus was dispossessed and saved his life only by an appeal to the king of the Alans; thereafter he lived in exile in Marseilles. His poem Echaristicon (‘Thanksgiving’), is a pessimistic account of the disasters of the early 5th century. He died c.ad 440.
