Donatus was a man living among the Huns in the Danube region in the early 5th century.
In the sources, it is mentioned that an embassy (around 413) by the Eastern Romans was sent to him, in which the historian Olympiodorus of Thebes also took part,[2] whose report has only been preserved in fragments.
Charaton, a king (or leader) of the Huns, was extremely angered by the assassination of Donatus and could only be appeased by the Romans with gifts.
[3] It is not clear from the sources who Donatus was and what exact political role he played.
[4] It is likely that he was murdered by the embassy in which also Olympiodorus took part in a very 'modern' pattern: "a government dispatches its agents to dispose of a possibly inconvenient émigré who had taken refuge in a foreign country.