A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. By various writers. Ed. by William Smith. Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.

664 RUBRIUS. RIUFINUS.
vanced in pregnancy, and within a few months she in his iniquities (Cic. Verr. i. 25). He seems to
was delivered of a- son (Alexander Aegus), who have been a different person from Q. Rubrius, who
was admitted to share the nominal sovereignty is also mentioned in connection with Verres. (Verr.
with Arrhidaeus, under the regency of Perdiccas. iii. 80.)
Some time before the boy's birth she had, with the 4. L. RUBRIUS, a Roman eques at Syracuse,
knowledge and concurrence of the regent, drawn when Verres was governor of Sicily. (Cic. Verr.
Stateira, or Barsine, and her sister Drypetis to iii. 57.)
Babylon by a friendly letter, and then caused 5. RuBR1US, was propraetor in Macedonia about
them to be murdered [BARSINE, No. 2]. In B. c. B. c. 67, in which year M. Cato served under him
321, Roxana and her infant son accompanied Per- as tribune of the soldiers. (Plut. Cat. min. 9.)
diccas in his expedition against Egypt; and on his 6. L. RUBRIUS, a senator, was taken prisoner
death in the same year, she became subject to the by Caesar at the capture of Corfinium, at the beginguardianship of Pithon and Arrhidaeus. [ARRaa- ning of B. C. 49, and was dismissed by him uninDAEus, No. 2.] In B. C. 320, she was removed jured. (Caes. B. C. i. 23.)
over to Macedonia by Antipater. In B.C. 318, 7. M. RUBRIUS, was with M. Cato in Utica
fearing probably the hostility of Eurydice, she fled at the time of his death. (Plut. Cat. min. 62, 63.)
with her son to Aeacides, king of Epeirus, by whom 8. RUBRius RUGA, was one of Caesar's assasthey were restored to Macedonia, together with sins, B. c. 44. (Appian, B. C. i. 113, with the note
Olympias, in the following year. It was not long, of Schweighiiuser.) He may have been the same
however, before Olympias, hard pressed by Cas- as either No. 6 or 7, both of whom belonged to
sander, was obliged to throw herself into Pydna, the Pompeian party.
whither Roxana and the young prince accompanied 9. L. RuBRIUS, of Casinum, made M. Antonius
her; and, when Pydna was taken, and Olympias his heir. (Cic. Phil. ii. 16.)
put to death by Cassander, early in B. c. 316, they 10. RUBRIUS, a Roman eques, accused at the
were placed by him in Amphipolis, with a corm- beginning of the reign of Tiberius. (Tac. Ann. i.
mand that they should no longer be treated as 73.)
royal persons. Here they were detained under RU'BRIUS, a physician at Rome, who lived
the charge of Glaucias till a. c. 311, in which probably about the beginning or middle of the first
year, soon after the general peace then concluded, century after Christ, and is mentioned by Pliny
they were murdered by their keeper, and their (H. N. xxix. 5) as having gained by his practice
bodies were secretly disposed of, in accordance with the annual income of two hundred and fifty thouorders from Cassander. (Plut. Alex. 77, de Alex. sand sesterces (about 19531. 2s. 6d.). As this is
Fort. ii. 6; Arr. Anab. vii. 27; Curt. x. 3, 6; Diod. considered by Pliny to be a very large sum, it
xviii. 3, 39, xix. 11, 52, 105; Strab. xi. p. 517, may give us some notion of the fortunes made by
xvii. p. 794; Just. xii. 15, xiii. 2, xiv 5, 6, xv. 2; physicians at Rome about the beginning of the
Paus. i. 6, 1 l1, ix. 7.) [E. E.] empire. [W. A. G.]
RUBE'LLIUS BLANDUS. [BLANDUS.] RU'BRIUS FABA'TUS, was apprehended in
RUBE'LLIUS GE'MINUS. [GEMINUS.] attempting to fly to the Parthians in A. D. 32, but
RUBE'LLIUS PLAUTUS. [PLAUTUS.] escaped punishment from the forgetfulness rather
RUBRE'NUS LAPPA, a tragic poet and a than the mercy of Tiberius. (Tac. Ann. vi. 14.)
contemporary of Juvenal, was compelled by po- RU'BRIUS GALLUS. [GALL'JS.]
verty to pledge his cloak, while writing a tragedy RU'BRIUS PO'LLIO. [POLLIO.]
on Atreus. (Juv. Sat. vii. 71-73.) RUFILLA, A'NNIA, spoken of in the reign
RU'BRIA. 1. The wife of one Carbo, a of Tiberius, A. D. 21. (Tac. Ann. iii. 36.)
friend of Cicero. (Cic. ad Fam. ix. 21. ~ 3.) RUFILLUS, a person ridiculed by Horace on
2. A woman of Mediolanum in the time of account of the perfumes he carried about his perAugustus, of whom Valerius Maximus (ix. 15. ext. son. (Hor. Sat. i. 2. 27, i. 4. 92.)
1) relates a story. RUFI'NA, POMPO'NIA. [POMPONIA.]
3. A Vestal virgin, with whom Nero committed RUFINIA'NUS, JU/LIUS, a Latin rhetoriincest. (Suet. Ner. 28.) cian of uncertain date, the author of a treatise De
RU'BRIA GENS, plebeian, is mentioned for Figuris Sententiaruin et Elocutionis, first published,
the first time in the tribunate of C. Gracchus, but along with several other pieces of a similar deit never attained much importance during the re- scription, by Beatus Rhenanus, 4to. Basel, 1521.
public. In the imperial period the Rubrii became It will be found in the " Rhetores Antiqui Latini "
more distinguished; -and one of them, namely of Pithoeus, 4to. Paris, 1599, p. 24, in the colC. Rubrius Gallus, obtained the consulship in A. nD. lection of Capperonerius, 4to. Argent. 1756, p. 29,
101. The surnames of the Rubrii in the time of and is generally included in the editions of the
the republic are tuga, Varrio, and Dossenus, the work by Rutilius Lupus [Lurus], which bears
latter of-which occurs only on coins [DossENUS]. the same title. [W. R.]
Under the empire we meet with a few more sur- RUFI'NUS, prime minister of Theodosius the
names, which are given below. Great, one of the most able, but also most inRU'BRIUS. 1. RTBRIUS, tribune of the plebs triguing, treacherous, and dangerous men of his
along with C. Gracchus, proposed the law for time. Suidas calls him BaOvuyvw1or vOpconros Keal
founding the colony at Carthage, which was carried Kpvl4*riovs. He was a native of Elusium, the
into effect. (Plut. C. Gracch. 10; comp. Appian, capital of Novempopulania, a portion of Aquitania,
B. C. i. ]2.) in Gaul, now Eause in Gascony. Although of low
2. Q. RUBRIUS VARRO, who was declared a birth, he succeeded in working his way up to the
public enemy along with Marius in B. c. 88, is imperial court, and early attached himself to the
mentioned by Cicero (Braut. 45) as an energetic fortune of Theodosius, with whom he became a
alnd passionate accuser. great favourite. HI-e employed his ascendancy over
3. RUBaIus, one of the companions of C. Verres the emperor to abuse his confidence, and Theo