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639; R. Rochette,
all connected with the old Latin word ruma, the Lettre à M. Schorn, p. 399, 2d ed. ) [P. S. )
breast, and are names for a divinity worshipped RU'PIUS. (Rufius. ]
by the Romans as the protectress of infants (Varro. RUS, M. AUFI'DIUS, occurs only on coins,
ap. Nonium, p. 167 ; Donat. ad Terent. Phorm. i. a specimen of which is annexed. On the obverse
1. 14 ; Plut. Romul. 4). The sacrifices offered to is a head of Pallas, and on the reverse Jupiter in
her and Cunina consisted of libations of milk, and a quadriga. Rus does not occur else where as a
not of wine. Ruminus, “the nourishing," was cognomen, and it may therefore probably be a con-
also a surname of Jupiter. (August, de Civ. Dei, traction of Rusticus. (Eckhel, vol. v. p. 147. )
vii. 11. )
[L. S. ]
RUMINA. (CUBA. ]
RUNCINA was probably only a surname of
Ops, by which he was invoked by the people of
Italy, to prevent the growth of weeds among the
corn, and promote the barvest. (August. de Civ.
Dei, iv. 8 ; Amob. iv. 7. )
[L. S. ]
RUPA, a freedman of C. Curio (Cic. ad Fam.
RUPI’LIA GENS, plebeian, is rarely men-
COIN OF AUFIDIUS RUS.
tioned. It produced only one person of import-
ance, namely, P. Rupilius, consul B. c. 132. None RUSCA, PINA'RIUS. [Posca. )
of the Rupilii bear any surnames, and the name
RU'SCIUS CAE'P10, a contemporary of Do-
does not occur on coins. Instead of Rupilius, we mitian (Suet. Don. 9).
frequently find the better known name of Rutilius C. RU'SIUS, an accuser mentioned by Cicero
in many editions of the ancient writers. Accord. (Brut. 74).
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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 he wrote a panegyric upon
Ann. vi. 30).
Thrasea. Suetonius attributes to him a panegyric
RUSO, CREMUTIUS, a friend of the upon Helvidius Priscus likewise ; but the latter
younger Pliny (Ep. vi. 23).
work was composed by Herennius Senecio, as we
RŮSOR, a Roman divinity, was worshipped as learn both froin Tacitus and Pliny (SENECIO).
one of the companions of Tellumo (Tellus), though (Tac. Ann. xvi. 25, Hist. iii. 80, Agr. 2; Sues
the name was probably nothing but an attribute of Dom. 10 ; Dion Cass. lxvii. 13; Plin. 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 Civ. No. 2, was consul A. D. 119 with the emperor
Dei, vii. 23). Rusor seems to be a contraction for Hadrian (Fasti). He is supposed by many com-
rursor or reversor.
[L. S. ] mentators to be the consul Junius, of whom Ju-
RUSTIA'NUS, PLAETOʻRIUS. [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
(Inser. p. 243, No. 669), or at Borghetto, near received the greatest marks of honour from Aure-
Otricoli, 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 Sigillariarius, 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 sigillum ; 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. )
à M. 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
Miscellan. p. 225; R. Rochette, Lettre à M. 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 Rusis
RU'STICUS, ANTI'STIUS, perished in in Cicero (Brut. 74), and Ruscius in Suetonius
Cappadocia. The piety of his wife Nigrina is (Dom. 8), into Rustius. We also find a T. Rus-
celebrated 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
PRVST!
extent of his work, except that it related at all
events the history of the latter emperor. (Comp.
Tac. Ann. xii. 20, xiv. 2, xv. 61. )
RU'STICUS, JU'NIUS. 1. JUNIUS Rusti-
CUS, appointed in the reign of Tiberius, A. D. 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. Rx-
was 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 B. C. 417, we ought undoubtedly to read Sp. Veturius
would only have bronght 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 I was P. Rutilius Lupus, who perished during his
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RUTILIUS.
a
xlv. 44. ).
consulship, B. c. 90, in the Social war. Under the colouring and purity of language to most of the
republic the Rutilii appenr with the cognomens productions of the age ; and the passage in which
Calvus, LUPUS, and Rurus; 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 nonks 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, 410. , with a dedication
given. The only coins of this gena 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. )
P
edition of A. W. Zumph, Berlin, 1840. The other
RUTI'LIUS J. P. Rutilius, tribune of the editions most worthy of mention are by Kappius,
plebs, B. c. 169, opposed the censors of that yenr Erlan. 1786; by Gruber, Nürnberg, 1804 ; and in
in the execution of one of their orders, and was in the Poctae Lalini Minores, edited by Burmann,
consequence removed by them from his tribe, and vol. ii. ; and by Wernsdorf, vol. v. ph I. The latter
reduced to the condition of an aerarian, (Liv. writer, in his Prolegomena, discusses at great
xliii. 16, xliv. 16. )
length every point respecting the life and poem of
2. P. Rutilius CALVus, practor B. c. 166. (Liv. Rutilius.
RUTI'LIUS, PALLADIUS, 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 Pal-
on 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. lll, 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 Scaevolm,
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. Rutilius, 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 malver-
60. ) (Fimbria, No. 1. )
sation (de repetundis), found guilty, and compelled
7. C. RUTILIUS, 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. 16.
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
RUTI'LIUS GALLICUS, 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 pri-
RUTI'LIUS GEMINUS, 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, Poel. Lat. Scen. refused to return to Rome, alihough recalled by
Fragm. p.