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676 RUFUS. RUFUS.
10. L. MINUClUS RUFUS, consul A. D. 88, (Fabric. Bill. Graec. vol. iii. pp. 566, 567; Ritter,~
with the emperor Domitian (Fast.). and Preller, Historia Plilosophiae, pp. 438-441;
RUFUS, MUNA'TIUS, one of the most in- Niewland, Dissert. Philos. Crit. de Musonio R1fo,
tinlate friends of the younger Cato, wrote a work Amstelod. 1783, which is reprinted by Peerlkamp,
on his friend, which is referred to by Plutarch. In in his C. MAusonii Ruff Reliquiae et Apophtlhegrata,
B. c. 58 Rufus accompanied Cato to Cyprus, who Harlemi, 1822.)
was charged with the task of uniting the island to RUFUS, NASIDIE'NUS. [NASIDIENUS.]
the Roman dominion; but he quarrelled with his RUFUS, Q. NUME'RIUS, tribune of the
friend, and returned to Italy in disgust, because plebs B. C. 57, opposed Cicero's return from banishCato would not allow him any opportunity of en- ment, and is said to have been bought by the
riching himself. Rufus, however, in his work on enemies of the orator. Cicero says that Numerius
Cato, gave a different account of their quarrel. was in ridicule called Gracchus, and that in one of
They were afterwards reconciled by the intervention the tumults of that year he was very nearly put to
of Marcia, Cato's wife. (Plut. Cat. MLin. 9, 30, death by his own party, that they might bring the
36, 37; Val. Max. iv. 3. ~ 2.) odium of the deed upon the friends of Cicero. (Cic.
RUFUS, C. MUSO'NIUS, a celebrated Stoic pro Sest. 33, 38; Ascon. in Pis. p. 11, ed. Orelli;
philosopher in the first century of the Christian Schol. Bob. pro Sext. p. 303, ed. Orelli.)
era, was the son of a Roman eques of the name of RUFUS, NUMI'SIUS, a Roman legate, asCapito, and was born at Volsinii in Etruria, either sisted Mummius Lupercus in the defence of Vetera
at the end of the reign of Augustus, or the begin- Castra against Civilis, A. D. 69-70 [LuPERcus],
ning of that of Tiberius. In consequence of his but before that camp was taken he had left it, and
practising and inculcating the principles of the joined Vocula at Novesium, where he was made
Porch, he became an object of suspicion and dis- prisoner by Classicus and Tutor [CLAssIcus; Volike at Nero's court, and was accordingly banished CULA], and taken to Treviri, where he was afterto the island of Gyaros, in A. D. 66, under the wards put to death by Valentinus and Tutor [V,pretext of his having been privy to the conspiracy LENTINUS]. (Tac. Hist. iv. 22, 55, 70, 77.)
of Piso. The statement of Suidas (s. v.), that he RUFUS, OCTA'VIUS, quaestor about B.c.
was put to death by Nero, is unquestionably erro- 230. [OUTAVIUS, No. 1.]
neous. He returned from exile on the accession of RUFUS, OCTA'VIUS, a contemporary of the
Galba, and when Antonius Primus, the general of younger Pliny and a poet, to whom Pliny addresses
Vespasian, was marching upon Rome, he joined the two of his letters (Ep. i. 7, ii. 10).
ambassadors that were sent by Vitellius to the RUFUS, PASSIE'NUS, consul B. c. 4, with
victorious general, and going among the soldiers of C. Calvisius Sabinus (Monum. Ancyr.), is probably
the latter, descanted upon the blessings of peace the same as the Passienus who obtained the honour
and the dangers of war, but was soon compelled to of the triumphal ornaments on account of his vicput an end to his unseasonable:eloquence. When tories in Africa. (Vell. Pat. ii. 116.)
the party of Vitellius gained the upper hand, Mu- RUFUS, PETI'LIUS. 1. One of the accusers
sonius distinguished himself by accusing Publius of Titius Sabinus in A. D. 28, because the latter
Celer, by whose means Barea Soranus had been had been a friend of Germanicus. Petilius had
condemned, and he obtained the conviction of already been praetor, and he undertook that accuPublius. Musonius seems to have been held in sation in hopes of gaining the consulship (Tac. Ain.
high estimation by Vespasian, as he was allowed vi. 68). The modern editions of Tacitus have Peto remain at Rome when the other philosophers titius, but we prefer the reading Petilius, as there
were banished from the city. The time of his was a consul of the name of Petilius Rufus in the
death is not mentioned, but he was not alive in reign of Domitian [No. 2].
the reign of Trajan, when Pliny speaks of his son- 2. Consul A. D. 83, with the emperor Domitian
in-law Artemidorus. (Tac. Ann. xiv. 59, xv. 71, (Fasti).
Hlist. iii. 81, iv. 10, 40; Dion Cass. lxii. 27, lxvi. RUFUS, PINA'RIUS MAMERCI'NUS.
13; Plin. Ep. iii. 11; Philostr. Vit. Apoll. iv. 35, [MtAMERCINUS.]
46, vii. 16; Themist. Orat. xiii. p. 173, ed. Hard.) RUFUS, PLAUITIUS, one of the conspiThe poet Rifus Festus Avienus was probably a rators against Augustus (Suet. Aug. 19). He is
descendant of Musonius. [See Vol. I. p. 433, a.] perhaps the same as the C. Plotins Rufus whose
Musonius wrote various philosophical works, name occurs on the coins of Augustus as one of the
which are spoken of by Suidas as XS'yoL L&dppoo triumvirs of the mint. (Eckhel, voL v. p. 278.)
OiAonroepLas e'xo'evot. Besides these Suidas mentions letters of his to Apollonius Tyanaeus, which
were spurious. His opinions on philosophical
subjects were also given in a work entitled,'Aero- ~ a
AvVquLoveugavra MovUwviovu rol (PtAood4pov, which Of
Suidas attributes to Asinius Pollio of Tralles (s. x.
IIwAIv), but which must have been the work of a sit
later writer of this name, as Asinius Pollio was a
contemporary of Pompey. [See Vol. III. p. 439, b.] \ A'
The work of Pollio seems to have been an imitation
of the Memorabilia of Xenophon, and it was probably this work that Stobaeus (Floril. xxix. 78,
lvi. 18), A. Gellius (v. 1, ix. 2, xvi. 1), Arrian,
and other writers made use of, when they quote COIN OF C. PLOTIUS RUFUS.
the opinions of Musonius. All the extant fragments
of his writings and opinions are carefully collected RUFUS, POMPEIUS. [PoMPEvus, Nos. 6,
by Peerlkamp, in the work referred to below. 8, 9, 13.]