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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consulship, B. c.- 90, in the Social war. Under the colouring and purity of language to most of the
republic the Rtntilii appear with the cognomens productions of the age; and the passage in which
CALvUS, LuPus, and RUFUS; but in the imperial he celebrates the praises of Rome is not unworthy
period we find several other surnames, of which a of the pen of Claudian. Rutilius was a heathen,
list is given below. The persons of this name who and attacks the Jews and monks with no small
are mentioned without a cognomen are spoken of severity.
under RUTILIUS, under which head the Rutilii The editio princeps of the poem was printed at
with the cognomens of Calvus and Rufus are also Bologna (Bononia) in 1520, 4to., with a dedication
given. The only coins of this gens extant bear on to Leo X. The work has since been frequently
them the cognomen FLACCUS, which does not reprinted, and it appears in its best form in the
occur in writers. [FLAccUs, p. 157, a.] edition of A. W. Zumpt, Berlin, 1840. The other
RUTI'LIUS 1. P. RUTILIUS, tribune of the editions most worthy of mention are by Kappius,
plebs, B. c. 169, opposed the censors of that year Erlan. 1786; by Gruber, Niirnberg, 1804; and in
in the execution of one of their orders, and was in the Poetae Lalini Minores, edited by Burmann,
consequence removed by them from his tribe, and vol. ii.; and by Wernsdorf, vol. v. pt. 1. The latter
reduced to the condition of an aerarian. (Liv. writer, in his Prolegoomena, discusses at great
xliii. 16, xliv. 16.) length every point respecting the life and poem of
2. P. RUTILIUS CALVUS, praetor B.c. 166. (Liv. Rutilius.
xlv. 44.) RUTI'LIUS, PALLA'DIUS, or, with his full
3. P. RUTILIUS, tribune of the plebs, B. c. 136, name, Palladius Rutilius Taurus Aemilianus, the
commanded Hostilius Mancinus to leave the senate, writer on agriculture, is spoken of under PALon the ground that he had lost his citizenship by LADIUS.
having been surrendered to the Numantines. (Cic. P. RUTI'LIUS RUFUS, a Roman statesman
de Or. i. 40.) [Comp. MANCINUS, No. 3.] and orator. He was a military tribune under
4. P. RUTILIUS RUFUS, consul B. c. 105, cele- Scipio in the Numantine war, was praetor B. C.
brated as an orator and an historian. See below. ll, was consul B. c. 105, having been defeated
5. C. RUTILIUS RUFUS, probably a brother of when he first stood for the office in B. c. 107, and
the preceding, undersigned the accusation of P. in B. c. 95 was legatus under Q. Mucius Scaevola,
Lentulus against M'. Aquillius, about B. c. 128. proconsul of Asia. While acting in this capacity
This C. Rufus was, like Publius, a friend of Scae- he displayed so much honesty and firmness in
vola. (Cic. Div. in Caecil. 21, Brut. 40.) repressing the extortions of the publicani, that he
6. RU`ILIUS, an officer in the army of Sulla in became an object of fear and hatred to the whole
Asia, was sent by the latter to Fimbria, when he body. Accordingly, on his return to Rome, he
solicited an interview in B. c. 84. (Appian, Mithr. was impeached, by a certain Apicius, of malver60.) [FimBRI.A, No. 1.] sation (de repetundis), found guilty, and compelled
7. C. RITTILIUS, accused by C. Rucius and de- to withdraw into banishment B. c. 92. Cicero
fended by Sisenna. (Cic. Brut. 74.) (pro Font. 13, Brut. 30), Livy (Epit. lib. lxx.),
8. P. RUTILIus, a witness in the case of Cae- Velleius (ii. 13), and Valerius Maximus (ii. 10.
cina. (Cic. pro Caecin. 10.) ~ 5), agree in asserting that Rutilius was a man
9. P. RUTILIUS, employed by Caesar in as- of the most spotless integrity, and in representing
signing grants of land to his veterans, B. c. 45. his condemnation as the result of a foul and un(Cic. ad Fam. xiii. 8.) principled conspiracy on the part of the equestrian
RUTItLIUS GA'LLICUS, praefectus urbi order, who not only farmed the public revenues,
under Domitian. (Juv. xiii. 157; Stat. Silv. i. 4.) but at that period enjoyed also the exclusive priRUTI'LIUS GE'MINUS, a Latin writer of vilege of acting as judices upon criminal trials.
uncertain age, was the author of a tragedy called He retired first to Mytilene, and from thence to
" Astyanax," and of " Libri Pontificales," accord- Smyrna, where he fixed his abode, and passed the
ing to the suspicious testimony of the grammarian remainder of his days in tranquillity, having
Fulgentius Planciades. (Bothe, Poet. Lat. Seen. refused to return to Rome, although recalled by
Fraym. p. 270.) Sulla. (Senec. de Beneft vi. 37; comp. Cic. Brut.
RUTI'LIUS LUPUS. [LUPUS.] 22, pro Balb. 11; Ov. ex Ponto, i. 3. 63; Sueton.
RUTI'LIUS MA'XIMUS. [MAXIMUS.] de Ill. Gramre. 6; Ores. v. 17.)
RUTI'LIUS NUMATIA'NUS, CLAU'- The orations of Rutilius were of a stern, harsh
DIUS, a Roman poet, and a native of Gaul, lived caste (tristi ac severe genere), containing much
at the beginning of the fifth century of the valuable matter upon civil law, but dryandmeagre
Christian aera. He resided at Rome a consider- (jejunae) in form, and imbued with the keen but
able time, where he attained the high dignity of cold character of the Stoical philosophy, in which
praefectus urbi, probably about A. D. 413 or 414. their author was deeply versed. He is classed in the
He returned, however, to his native country Brutus (c. 29) along with Scaurus, both being
after it had been laid waste by the barbarians described as men of much industry, extensive
of the north, and appears to have passed there practice, and good abilities, but destitute of orathe remainder of his life in peace. His re- torical talent of a high order. They were twice
turn to Gaul he described in an elegiac poem, fairly pitted against each other, for Rutilius, when
which bears the title of Itinerarium, or De Reditu, defeated in his suit for the consulship, impeached
but which Wernsdorf thinks may have been en- Scaurus, his successful competitor, of bribery, and
titled originally Rutilii de Reditu suo Itinerariums. Scaurus, being acquitted, in turn charged his
Of this poem the first book, consisting of 644 accuser with the same offence. We are acquainted
lines, and a small portion of the second, have come with the titles of seven speeches by Rutilius, but
down to us. It appears from internal evidence of these scarcely a word has been preserved.
(i. 133) that it was composed in A. D. 417, in the 1., Adversus Scaurum. 2. Pro se contra Scau,
reign of Honorius. It is superior both in poetical runs, Both delivered B. c. 107 (Cic. Brut. 30A