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

680 RUSTICUS. RUTILIA.
RUSO, ABU'DIUS, condemned and banished Nero, A. D. 69, and was subsequently put to. death
from Rome in the reign of Tiberius, A. D. 34 (Tac. by Domitian, because lie wrote a panegyric upon
Ann. vi. 30). Thrasea. Suetonius attributes to him a panegyric
RUSO, CREMU'TIUS, a friend of the upon Helvidius Priscus likewise; but the latter
younger Pliny (Ep. vi. 23). work was composed by Herennius Senecio, as we
RUSOR, a Roman divinity, was worshipped as learn both from Tacitus and Pliny [SENECIO].
one of the companions of Tellumo (Tellus), though (Tac. Ann. xvi. 25, Hist. iii. 80, Agr. 2; Suet.
the name was probably nothing but an attribute of Dom. 10; Dion Cass. lxvii. 13; Plins. Ep. i. 5,
Tellumo, by which was personified the power of 14, iii. 11; Plut. de Curios. p. 522, d.)
nature (the earth) of bringing forth to light the 3. Q. JUNIUS RUSTICUS, probably a son of
seeds entrusted to her (Varro, ap. August. de Cis. No. 2, was consul A. D. 19 with the emperor
Dei, vii. 23). Rusor seems to be a contraction for Hadrian (Fasti). He is supposed by many comrursor or reversoe. [L. S.] mentators to be the consul Junius, of whom JuRUSTIA'NUS, PLAETO'RIUS. [PLAE- venal speaks (Juv. xv. 27).
TORIUS, No. 7.] 4. Q. JUNIUS RUSTICUS, probably a son of
C. RUSTICE'LLIUS FELIX, an African, and No. 3, and grandson of No. 2, was one of the
a maker of small figures, is known by his epitaph, teachers of the emperor M. Aurelius, and the most
which was found at Rieti, according to Fabretti distinguished Stoic philosopher of his time. He
(Inscr. p. 243, No. 669), or at Borghetto, near received the greatest marks of honour from AureOtricoli, according to Gruter, who also gives the lius, who constantly consulted him on all public
artist's name in a different form, Tudicellius and private matters, raised him twice to the consul(Gruter, p. mxxxv. No. 3; Orelli, Inscr. Lat. Sel. ship, and obtained from the senate after his death
No. 4279). It is remarkable that the inscription the erection of statues to his honour. His name,
describes the artist as Siyillariarius, which R. Ro- however, appears only once in the consular Fasti,
chette explains as derived from Sigillare, a word namely, in A. D. 162. (Dion Cass. lxxi. 35;
synonymous with sitillm; but perhaps it is only Capitol. M. Antonin. Phil. 3; Antonin. i. 7, with
a mistake of the stone-cutter. (R. Rochette, Lettre the note of Gataker.)
a ill. Schorn, p. 399, 2d ed.) [P. S.] L. RU'STIUS, occurs on coins, a specimen of
C. RUSTICELLUS, of Bononia, an orator of which is annexed. On the obverse is the head of
considerable skill mentioned by Cicero (Brut. 46). Mars, and on the reverse a ram. The name of
RU'STICUS, a Roman architect of unknown Q. Rustius is also found on coins (Eckhel, vol. v.
age, who was a freedman of the imperial family, pp. 297, 298). Rustius occurs in Plutarch as the
since he is designated AUG. L. on the sepulchral name of one of the Roman officers who accompanied
monument by which his name is known. (Spon, Crassus in his expedition against the Parthians
1Iiscellan. p. 225; R. Rochette, Lettre a 1M.Schorn, (Plut. Crass. 32); and there is no occasion to
p. 400, 2d ed.) [P. S.] change it into Ruscius or any other name, as
RU'STICUS, to whom Pliny addresses one of modern editors have proposed, since we have the
his letters (Ep. ix. 29), is supposed by many decisive evidence of coins that Rustius was a
commentators to be the son of the Antistius Rus- Roman name. On the contrary, we are inclined,
ticus mentioned below, but this is quite uncertain. on the authority of these coins, to change Rusius
RU'STICUS, ANTI'STIUS, perished in in Cicero (Brut. 74), and Ruscius in Suetonius
Cappadocia. The piety of his wife Nigrina is (Domn. 8), into Rustius. We also find a T. Ruscelebrated by Martial (ix. 31] ). tius Nummius Gallus, one of the consules suffecti
RU'STICUS ARULE'NUS. [RUsTICUS, in A. D. 26.
JUNIUS, No. 2.]
RU'STICUS, FA'BIUS, a Roman historian,
quoted on several occasions by Tacitus, who
couples his name with that of Livy (" Livius
veterum, Fabius Rusticus recentium eloquentissimi
auctores," Agr. 10). He was a contemporary of
Claudius and Nero, but we know nothing of the
extent of his work, except that it related at all W
events the history of the latter emperor. (Comp.
Tac. Ann. xiii. 20, xiv. 2, xv. 61.) COIN OF L. RUSTIUS.
RU'STICUS, JU'NIUS. 1. JUNIus RUSTIcus, appointed in the reign of Tiberius, A. n. 29, RUTI'LIA, the mother of C. Cotta, the orator,
to draw up the acta of the senate (Tac. Ann. v. 4). accompanied her son into exile in B. C. 91, and
2. L. JUNIUS ARULENUS RUSTICUS, more usu- remained with him abroad till his return some
ally called Arulenus Rusticus, but sometimes also years afterwards. [COTTA, No. 9.] She bore his
Junius Rusticus. Lipsius, however, has shown death with the heroism of a genuine Roman matron.
that his full name was L. Junius Arulenus Rusti- (Sen. Consol. ad Helv. 16; comp. Cic. ad Att. xii.
cus (ad Tac. Agr. 45). Rusticus was a friend and 20, 22.)
pupil of Paetus Thrasea, and, like the latter, an RUTI'LIA GENS, plebeian. No persons of
ardent admirer of the Stoic philosophy. He was this name are mentioned till the second century
tribune of the plebs B. C. 66, in which year Thrasea before the Christian aera; for instead of Sp. Ruwas condemned to death by the senate; and he tilius Crassus, who occurs in many editions of Livy
would have placed his veto upon the senatuscon- (iv. 47) as one of the tribunes of the plebs in
sultum, had not Thrasea prevented him, as he Bc. 417,we ought undoubtedly to read Sp. Veturius
would only have brought certain destruction upon Crassus. (See Alschefski, ad Liv. I. c.) The first
himself without saving the life of his master. He member of the gens who obtained the consulship
was praetor in the civil wars after the death of was P. Rutilius Lupus, who perished during his