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

670 RUFUS. RUFUS.
Rufus would not have written any thing so full of Music, in three books, in which he treated of the
popular superstitions and absurdities. The frag- origin of tragedy and comedy. Sopater availed
ment treats of thirteen different plants, in as himself to a considerable extent of this work of
many chapters, in which, says Haller, " Medica- Rufus. (Phot. Cod. 161; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol.
rum virium adest farrago verarum et falsarum." ii. p. 320.)
The names of several of his lost works have been 5. The author of a short treatise on rhetoric,
preserved by Galen, Suidas, and especially by the published for the first time along with a work of
Arabic writers, who appear to have been well ac- Tiberius on the same subject, by Boissonade, Lonquainted with his books, and to have translated don, 1815. (Westermann, Gesch. d. Griech. Bealmost all of them into their language (see Wen- redtsamkeit, ~ 104, n. 2.)
rich, De Auctor. Graecor. Version. Arab. Syriac. RUFUS, ACI'LIUS, a contemporary of the
Arnmen. dc. p. 221,&c.). Of these were five books younger Pliny, was consul designatus in A. D. 102,
rIpl Api ai7rs, De Victus Ratione, quoted by Ori- in which year he spoke in the senate respecting
basins, Suidas, and Ibn Baitar (vol. i. pp. 366, the accusation of Varenus Rufus by the Bithynians.
378, 533, ii. 390); OepacrevruKd, De Mfethodo (Plin. Ep. v. 20. ~ 6, vi. 13.)
Medendi (Galen, De Simplic. M41edicam. Temper. RUFUS, AEMI'LIUS, served as praefectus
ne Facult. vi. praef. vol. xi. p. 796), from which of the cavalry under Domitius Corbulo in Armenia,
work probably the fragments preserved by Ae'tius and, on account of his misconduct, was degraded
are taken; rIepl MeAayXohAas, De Melancholia and punished by Corbulo. (Frontin. Strat. iv. 1.
(Galen, De Atra Bile, c. i. vol. v. p. 105; Ibn ~ 28.)
Baitar, vol. i. p. 89); nlpl ALaiThls Heds'-wv, De RUFUS, AN'NIUS LUSCUS. [Luscus,
Victu Navigantium (Suid.; or De Viatorusm Vivendi ANNIUS, NO. 3.]
Ratione, Wenrich); lIepl Tpav/ua csrc 4,ap/LAaKWV, RUFUS, A'NNIUS, procurator of Judaea at
De M1edicamentis Vulnerumr (Suid.; or De Vul- the death of the emperor Augustus, A. D. 14 (Joneribus, Wenrich); Iepi v''Ktcwv, De Ficubus * seph. Ant. xviii. 2. ~ 2). He was succeeded in
(Suid.; Oribas. Coll. Medic. i. 40, p. 213; or De the government by Valerius Gratus. [GRATUS.]
Mariscis, Wenrich); IIepl'ApXafas'Iarpuckns, De RUFUS, ANTO/NIUS, the name of a Latin
VTetere MAedicina (Suid.); Isepl rdAcaKTos, De Lacte; grammarian, quoted by Quintilian (i. 5. ~ 43) and
nlepl Ofvov, De Vino; nlel MEALTos, De Melle Velius Longus (p. 2237, ed. Putsch.). The Scho(Suid.; Oribas. Coll. Medic. ii. 61, v. 7, pp. 232, liast Cruquianus (ad Hor. Ar. Poit. 288) speaks
266; Ibn Baitar, ii. p. 420, &c. Perhaps these of an Antonius Rufus who wrote plays both praethree formed part of his work on Diet); De Mor- textatae uand togatae, but whether he is the same
his qui Articulis contingunt (Oribas. Coll. Medic. viii. as the grammarian, must be left uncertain. Glan47, p. 362). dorp, in his Onomnasticon (p. 99), states on the
The titles of twenty or' thirty other trea- authority of Acron that Antonius Rufus translated
tises are enumerated in Wenrich, but many of both Homer and Pindar, but there is no passage in
them (as indeed some of those mentioned above,) Acron in which the name of Antonius Rufus
appear to have been only the different chapters of occurs. Glandorp probably had in his mind the
some extensive work. Rufus was also one of those statement of the Scholiast on Horace already rewho commented on some of the works of Hippo- ferred to, and connected it with a line in Ovid
crates, and he is said by Galen (Comment. in Hip- (ex Pont. iv. 16. 28), in which Rufus is spoken
pocr. "Epid. VI." i. 10. vol. xvii. pt. i. p. 849) to of as a lyric poet; but who this Rufus was,
have been a diligent student of them, and to have whether the same as Antonius Rufus or not,
always endeavoured to preserve the ancient readings cannot be determined. (Wernsdorf, Poetae Latini
of the text (Comment. in Hippocr. " Pro7rhlet. I." MIinores, vol. iii. p. 30, vol. iv. p. 585.)
ii. 58, vol. xvi. p. 636). Further information re- RUFUS, ASI'NIUS, a friend of Tacitus and
specting Rufus and his writings may be found in the younger Pliny, the latter of whom recommends
Fabricius, Bibl. Graec. vol. iii. p. 102, xiii. 385, ed. Asinius Bassus, the son of Rufus, to Fundanus.
vet.; Haller's Bibl. Botan., Anatom., 8 Medic. (Plin. Ep. iv. 15.)'1ract.; Sprengel's Hist. de la Med.; Choulant's RUFUS, ATE'RIUS, a Roman eques, was
IIand6. der BiicJherlkunde fiir die Aeltere Medicin; murdered in the theatre, as had been foreshown
and the Penny Cyclopaedia, from which some of the him in a dream during the preceding night. (Val.
preceding remarks are taken. [W. A. C.] Max. i. 7. ~ 8.)
RUFUS. 1. A lyric poet, and a contemporary RUFUS, ATI'LIUS, a man of consular rank,
of Ovid. [RUFUs, ANTONIUS.] was governor of Syria during the reign of Do2. A friend of Pliny the younger, who ad- mitian, and died just before the return of Agricola
dresses two letters to him (Ep. v. 21, vii. 25). from Britain, A. D. 84. (Tac. Agric. 40.)
His gentile name is not mentioned by Pliny. RUFUS, A'TIUS, one of the officers in PomThere were four other correspondents of Pliny pey's army in Greece, in B. c. 48, accused Afranius
who bear the cognomen of Rufus; namely, Cal- of treachery on account of his defeat in Spain in
visius, Caninius, Octavius, and Sempronius, all of the preceding year. (Caes. B. C. iii. 83.)
whom are mentioned below in alphabetical order. RUFUS, AUFIDIE'NUS, praefectus of the
3. Of Perinthus, a Greek sophist, was a pupil camp at Nauportus, when the formidable insurof Herodes Atticus. An account of him is given rection of the Pannonian legions broke out on the
by Philostratus. (Vit. Soph. ii. 17, pp. 597, 598, death of Augustus, was an especial object of the
ed. Olearius; comp. Westermann, Gesch. d. Griech. wrath of the soldiers. (Tac. Ann. i. 20.)
Beredtsamkeit, ~ 92, n. 5.) RUFUS, AURE'LIUS, a name which occurs
4. A Greek writer, the author of a work on only on coins, of which a specimen is annexed. It
has on the obverse the head of Pailas, and on the
* Probably wrongly rendered by Fabricius, " De reverse Jupiter driving a quadriga, with the legend
Ficosis Tumoribus sive Excrescentiis." AV. RVF. (Eckhel, vol. v. p. 148.)