Rufus (Roman cognomen)
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Rufus is a Roman
cognomen
borne by a number of individuals, including:
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Cognomen
The cognomen nōmen "name") was the third name of a citizen of Ancient Rome, under Roman naming conventions. The cognomen started as a nickname, but lost that purpose when it became hereditary. Hereditary cognomina were used to augment the second name in order to identify a particular branch within...
borne by a number of individuals, including:
- Publius Sulpicius RufusPublius Sulpicius RufusPublius Sulpicius Rufus was an orator and statesman of the Roman Republic, legate in 89 to Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo in the Social War, and in 88 tribune of the plebs....
, politician and general of the 2nd century BC - Publius Rutilius RufusPublius Rutilius RufusPublius Rutilius Rufus was a Roman statesman, orator and historian of the Rutilius family, as well as great-uncle of Gaius Julius Caesar....
, politician, general and historian of the 2nd century BC - Servius Sulpicius RufusServius Sulpicius RufusServius Sulpicius Rufus , surnamed Lemonia from the tribe to which he belonged, was a Roman orator and jurist.He studied rhetoric with Cicero, and accompanied him to Rhodes in 78 BC. Finding that he would never be able to rival his teacher he gave up rhetoric for law...
, orator of the 1st century BC - Lucius Varius RufusLucius Varius RufusLucius Varius Rufus was a Roman poet of the Augustan age.He was the friend of Virgil, after whose death he and Plotius Tucca prepared the Aeneid for publication, and of Horace, for whom he and Virgil obtained an introduction to Maecenas...
, poet of the 1st century BC - Valgius RufusValgius RufusGaius Valgius Rufus, Latin poet, friend of Horace and Maecenas, and consul in 12 BC.He was known as a writer of elegies and epigrams, and his contemporaries believed him capable of great things in epic. The author of the panegyric on Messalla declares Rufus to be the only poet fitted to be the...
, poet of the 1st century BC - Musonius RufusMusonius RufusGaius Musonius Rufus, was a Roman Stoic philosopher of the 1st century AD. He taught philosophy in Rome during the reign of Nero, as consequence of which he was sent into exile in 65 AD, only returning to Rome under Galba...
, Roman Stoic philosopher of the 1st century - Marcus Caelius RufusMarcus Caelius RufusMarcus Caelius Rufus was an orator and politician in the late Roman Republic. He was born into a wealthy equestrian family from Interamnia Praetuttiorum , on the central east coast of Italy...
, politician of the 1st century BC - Marcus Minucius Rufus (consul 221 BC)Marcus Minucius Rufus (consul 221 BC)Marcus Minucius Rufus was a Roman consul in 221 BC. He was also Magister Equitum during dictatorship of Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus known as Cunctator....
- Lucius Virginius Rufus, politician and general of the 1st century
- Quintus Curtius RufusQuintus Curtius RufusQuintus Curtius Rufus was a Roman historian, writing probably during the reign of the Emperor Claudius or Vespasian. His only surviving work, Historiae Alexandri Magni, is a biography of Alexander the Great in Latin in ten books, of which the first two are lost, and the remaining eight are...
, historian of the 1st century|1st or 2nd century - Calvisius RufusCalvisius Rufus... Calvisius Rufus was a governor of Britannia Inferior, a province of Roman Britain some time between AD 222 and 235. Little else is known of him although an inscription does record him adding a building at Old Penrith....
, governor of Britain in the 3rd century - Rufus (consul 457)Rufus (consul 457)Flavius Rufus was a politician of the Eastern Roman Empire. In 457 he was appointed Consul with Constantinus as colleague; both of them were recognised only in the East.Nothing else is known about him.- Sources :...
, consul in 457