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de Orat. ii. 69). 3. Pro lege sua de tribunis mi- RU'TILUS, NAU'TIUS. 1. SP. NAUTIUS
liturm, delivered when consul, B. c. 105. (See Fest. RUTILUS, is first mentioned by Dionysius in B. c.
s. v. Rufuli tribuni.) 4. De modo aediflciorum. 493, as one of the most distinguished of the
On setting bounds to the extravagance displayed younger patricians at the time of the secession of
in rearing sumptuous dwellings. Probably deli- the plebeians to the Sacred Mount. He was consul
vered in his consulship. (Suet. Aug. 89.) 5. Pro in B. C. 488 with Sex. Furius Medullinus Fusus,
L. Caerucio ad populum. Time and subject in which year Coriolanus marched against Rome.
unknown. 6. Pro se contra publicanos. Deli- (Dionys. vi. 69, viii. 16, &c.; Liv. ii. 39.)
vered B. C. 93 or 92. 7. Oratio ficta ad Mithri- 2. C. NAUTILUS SP. F. SP. N. RUTILUS, prodatem regem (Plut. Pomp. 37). He wrote also bably brother of No. 1., was consul for the first
an autobiography in five books at least (Tac. time B. C. 475, with P. Valerius Publicola, and
Agric. 1), quoted by Charisius (pp. 96, ]00, 105, laid waste the territory of the Volscians, but was
112, 119, 176, ed. Putsch.), by Diomedes (pp. unable to bring them to a battle. He was consul
371, 372), and by Isidorus (Orig. xxii. 11); and a second time in B. c. 458, with L. Minucius
a History of Rome in Greek, which contained an Augurinus. While Rutilus carried on the war
account of the Numantine war, in which he had with success against the Sabines, his colleague Miserved; but we know not what period it embraced. nucius was defeated by the Aequians; and Rutilus
(In addition to the authorities quoted above see had to return to Rome to appoint L. Quintius Cinlikewise Athen. iv. p. 168, vi. p. 274, xii. p. 543; cinnatus dictator. (Liv. ii. 52, iii. 25, 26, 29;
Plut. Mar. 28; Liv. xxxix. 52; Macrob. Sat. Dionys. ix. 28, 35, x. 22, 23, 25.)
i. 16; Plin. H. N. vii. 30; Gell. vii. 14, ~ 10; 3. SP. NAUTILus RUTILvS, consular tribune,
Lactant. xv. 17; Appian. B. H. 88; Suidas s. v. B. c. 424. (Liv. iv. 35.)'Pove'rLios; Meyer, Oratoruan Roman. Fragmnenta, 4. SP. NAUTILUS SP. F. SP. N. RUT1LUS, three
p. 265, 2d ed.; Krause, Vitae Historic. Roman. times consular tribune, namely in B. c. 419, 416,
p. 227.) With regard to the question whether 404. Livy says that Rutilus held the office a
Rufus was ever tribune of the plebs, see Clinton, second time in 404, but the Capitoline Fasti make
sub B. C. 88, and Cic. pro Planc. 21. [ W. R.] it a third time; and this is more consistent with
RU'TILUS, CORNE'LIUS COSSUS. [Cos- Livy's own account, who had mentioned previously
sus, No. 7.] two tribunates of Rutilus. (Liv. iv. 44, 47, 61;
RU'TILUS, HOSTI'LIUS, praefect of the Fasti Capit.)
camp in the army of Drusus in Germany, B. C. 11. 5. C. NAUTIUS RUTILvS, consul B. C. 411,
(Obsequ. 132.) with M. Papirius Mugillanus. (Liv. iv. 52.)
RU'TILUS, C. MA'RCIUS, L. F. C. N., one 6. SP. NAUTIUS SP. F. SP. N. RUTILUS, conof the distinguished plebeians, who obtained the sul B. c. 316 with M. Popillius Laenas. (Liv. ix.
highest offices of the state soon after the enactment 21; Fasti Capit.)
of the Licinian laws. He was consul for the first 7. SP. NAUTIUS (RUTILUS), an officer in the
time in B. C. 357 with Cn. Manlius Capitolinus, army of the consul L. Papirius Cursor, B. C. 293,
and carried on the war against the inhabitants of distinguished himself greatly in the battle against
Privernum. He took the town, and obtained a the Samnites, and was rewarded in consequence by
triumph in consequence. In the following year, the consul. (Liv. x. 41, 44.)
B. C. 356, he was appointed dictator in order to 8. C. NAUTIUS RUTILUS, consul B. C. 287 with
carry on the war against the Etruscans. This M. Claudius Marcellus. (Fasti.)
was the first time that a plebeian had attained this RU'TILUS SEMPRO'NIUS. 1. C. SEMdignity; and the patricians were so indignant PRONIUS RUTILUS, tribune of the plebs B. C. 189,
at what they chose to regard as a desecration of joined his colleague P. Sempronius Gracchus in a
the office, that, notwithstanding the public danger, public prosecution of M'. Acilius Glabrio. (Liv.
they threw every obstacle in the way of the pre- xxxvii. 57.)
parations for the war. The people, however, 2. SEMPRONIUS RUTILUS, one of Caesar's leeagerly supplied Rutilus with every thing that gates in Gaul. (Caes. B. G. vii. 90.).was needed, and enabled him to take the field with RU'TILUS, VIRGI NIUS TRICOSTUS.
a well appointed army. Their expectations of suc- [TRICOSTUS.]
cess were fiully realised. The plebeian dictator
defeated the Etruscans with great slaughter; but
as the senate refused him a triumph, notwithstand- S.
ing his brilliant victory, he celebrated one by command of the people. In B. C. 352 he obtained the SABA or SABAS (:a'das), a celebrated Greek
consulship a second time with P. Valerius Pub- ecclesiastic of the fifth century. He was a native
licola; and in the following year, B. C. 351, he was of Mutalasca, a village in Cappadocia, where he
the first plebeian censor. He was consul for the was born, as his biographer, Cyril of Scythopolis,
third time in B. C. 344 with T. Manlius Torquatus, records, in the seventeenth consulship of the emand for the fourth time in B. c. 342 with Q. Ser- peror Theodosius II., A. D. 439. His parents,
vilius Ahala. In the latter year, which was the named Joannes and Sophia, were Christians, and
second of the Samnite war, Rutilus was stationed persons of rank. His father being engaged in
in Campania, and there discovered a formidable military service at Alexandria, he was left at Muconspiracy among the Roman troops, which he talasca, under the care of Hermias, his maternal
quelled before it broke out by his wise and prudent uncle; but the depraved character of his uncle's
measures. (Liv. vii. 16, 17, 21, 22, 28, 38, 39.) wife led to his removal and his being placed under
The son of this Rutilus took the surname of Cen- the care of another uncle, Gregorius, his father's
sorinus, which in the next generation entirely sup- brother, who resided in the village of Scandus,'planted that of Rutilus, and became the name of in the same neighbourhood. His two uncles
the family. [CENsORINUS.] having a dispute about the guardianship of the