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Publius Rutilius Rufus
Overview
Publius Rutilius Rufus (c. 160 BC – after 78 BC) was a Roman politician, soldier, orator, and historian. He was consul in 105 BC, with Gnaeus Mallius Maximus as his colleague. A military man, he had served in more junior roles in wars against Numantia, Jugurtha, and the Cimbri.
After his consulship, while serving as a legate of Quintus Mucius Scaevola in provincial Asia, he attempted to safeguard the population from extortion by influential equites. Prosecuted at Rome c. 94 BC for extorting those same provincials, according to the Ciceronean tradition he was unjustly condemned. He then left for exile in Asia, settling at Mytilene and Smyrna, living among those he had supposedly extorted. The author of a history of Rome in Greek, he survived the upheavals of the Mithridatic Wars and was still alive in the early 70s BC when Cicero visited him there.
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When he dislodged and drew off, Marcellus, gathering up the spoils of the enemies, and burying the bodies of his slain soldiers, closely followed him. And though Hannibal often used stratagems, and laid ambushes to entrap Marcellus, yet he could never circumvent him.
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Of all he adversaries and enviers of his glory, Marcus Manlius was the most distinguished, he who first drove back the Gauls when they made their night attack upon the Capitol, and who for that reason had been named Capitolinus. This man, affecting the first place in the commonwealth, and not able by noble ways to outdo Camillus's reputation, took that ordinary course toward usurpation of absolute power, namely, to…
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The senator Cælius, too, while lying sick at Placentia, was surprised by armed men, but received not a wound from them until they had first killed his dog. But a more extraordinary fact than all, took place in our own times, and is testified to by the public register of the Roman people. In the consulship of Junius and Silius, when Titius Sabinus was put to death together with his slaves, for the affair of Nero, the…
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Part of Ancient Roman philosophy.