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

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RUFUS, M. POMPO'NIUS, one of the con. in the discharge of his judicial duties, was sensular tribunes B. c. 399. (Liv. v. 13; Fasti tenced by that emperor to be banished to an island.
Capit.) Hlie was subsequently allowed to return to Rome,
RUFUS, POMPO'NIUS, mentioned by Pliny and gained great influence with the emperor
(Ep. iv. 9. ~ 3), as Pomponius Rufus Varenus. Claudius, by whom he was promoted to the con[VARENUS.] sulship in A. D. 46. But he prostituted his power
RUFUS, A. PU'PIUS, occurs on the coins of and talents to base and unworthy purposes. He
Cyrene, with the legend TAMIAC, from which it possessed considerable powers of oratory, but these
appears that he was quaestor in the province. Most were employed in bringing accusations against his
of the coins have, on them POTIOC, as well as wealthy contemporaries; and his services were
IIOTHIlOC, but the former name is omitted in the only to be obtained by large sums of money. In
specimen annexed. (Eckhel, vol. iv. p. 126.) the reign of Nero, A. D. 58, he was accused of
various crimes, was condemned, and was banished
to the Balearic islands (Tac. Ann. iv. 31, xi. 1, 4,
~/ ftl~a~% ~ \ 5, xiii. 42, 43). Suillius married the daughter of
Ovid's third wife; and one of the poet's letters
72, =L (from Pontus is addressed to Suillius, in which he
\, Wk- begs the latter to reconcile Germanicus to him (ex
ll\lL~l Fit,; X -a to a Pont. iv. 8). Suillius was also the half-brother of
Domitius Corbulo, the celebrated general in the
reign of Nero; the name of their mother was Vestilia. (Plin. H. N. vii. 4. s. 5.)
COIN OF A. PUPIUS RUFUS. SULPI'CIUS. [SuLPIcIus.]
RUFUS, RUTI'LIUS. [RuTILI us] RUFUS, TA'RIUS, was appointed, in A. ).
RUFUS, SALVIDIE'NUS. [SALVIDIENUS.] 23, to succeed Ateius Capito, in the important
RUFUS, SA'TRIUS, a Roman orator, and a office of " curator aquarum publicarum," but was
contemporary of the younger Pliny. (Plin. Ep. i. himself succeeded, in the following year, by M.
5. ~l11, ix. 13. ~~17.) Cocceius Nerva, the grandfather of the emperor
RUFUS, SCRIBO'NIUS. [PRocuLus, SCRI- (Frontin. de Agquaed. 102). He is probably the
BONIUS, NO. 2.) same as the L. Tarius Rufus who was consul sufRUFUS, SEMPRO'NIUS. 1. C. SEMPRO- fectls in B. C. 16.
NIUS RUFUS, a friend of Cicero, was accused by RUFUS, TI'TIUS, was put to death in the
M. Tuccius in a.C.. 51. Shortly before Caesar's reign of Caligula, for saying that the senate thought
death he had received some injury from Q. Corni- differently from what it said. (Dion Cass. lix. 18.)
ficius, in consequence of which Rufus proposed a RUFUS, TREBELLIE'NUS, who had presenatusconsultum after Caesar's death, which con- viously been praetor, was appointed by Tiberios,
tained certain things to theprejudice of Cornificius. in A. D. 19, to govern Thrace on behalf of the
(Caisius, ad Fals. viii. 8; Cic. ad At. vi. 2. ~10I, children of Cotys. He put an end to his own life
ad Fanr. xii. 22, 25, 29.) [Comp. RuFIo.] in A. D. 35. (Tac. Ann. ii. 67, iii. 38, vi. 39.)
2. A friend of the younger Pliny, who addresses RUFUS, VA'LGIUS. [VALGITJS.]
one of his letters to him. (Ep. iv. 22.) RUFUS, VERGI'NIUS, was consul for the
3. An eunuch, and a Spaniard by birth, had first time in A. D. 63, with C. Memmius Regulus,
been guilty of various crimes, but possessed un- and received afterwards the government of Gerbounded influence with the emperor Caracalla. many. He commanded in this country in the last
(Dion Cass. lxxvii. 17.) year of Nero's reign (A. D. 68), when Julius VinRUFUS, L. SE'RVIUS, a name which occurs dex, the propraetor of Gaul, revolted from Nero,
only on coins, a specimen of which is annexed. and offered the sovereignty to Galba, who was then
in Spain. The soldiers of Rufus wished their own
commander to assume the supreme power, but he
~:~,lY-,4. F X.7.% ~1 )steadily refused it himself, and would not allow any, iC;~ tag6i9+?~@~As;/:,<S~8 A one else to obtain it, except the person upon whom
(~~~ SW to h C~al s o >at X /.. ~ 0/ it might be conferred by the senate. He accordingly
a,,/,. W —-e o /,~ o marched against VinIdex, who was defeated by him
in a bloody battle, and put an end to his life. When;~ the news of this disaster reached Galba, he was so
alarmed that he was also on the point of destroying
COIN OF L. SERVIUS RUFUS. himself. The soldiers of Rufus were now more
anxious than ever to raise him to the imperial digRUFUS, SEXTI'LIUS. 1. P., succeeded to nity, and as he would not yield to their entreaties
the property of Q. Fadius Gallus in a dishonourable they proceeded to use threats, which he equally
manner. (Cic. de Fin. ii. 17.) disregarded. Soon afterwards Nero perished, and
2. C., was quaestor in Cyprus in B. c. 47, at Galba was recognised as emperor by the senate.
which time Cicero wrote a letter to him, which is The new emperor, afraid of the intentions of Rufus,
extant (ad Fans. xiii. 48). In the wars which eagerly solicited him to accompany him to Rome;
followed the death of Caesar, Rufus joined the re- and Rufus, who had no wish for the sovereignty,
publican party and commanded the fleet of C. complied with his request. Galba, however, still
C6assius (ad FParsz. xii. 13. ~ 4). jealous of his fame with the German troops, conRUFUS, SEXTUS. [SEXTUS RUrFUS.] ferred no mark of favour upon him; and this negRUFUS, P. SUI'LLIUS, had been formerly lect of their former general gave no small umbrage
the quaestor of Germanicus, and having been con- to the soldiers who had served under him. On
victed, ill the reign of Tiberius, of receiving bribes the death of Galba, Otho, anxious to conciliate the
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