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RUFUS, PUBLIUS , See also:Roman statesman, orator and historian, See also:born c. 158 B.C. He was on intimate terms with the younger Scipio, under whom he served in the Numantine See also:War (134), and he also accompanied Q. See also:Metellus Numidicus in the See also:campaign against Jugurtha (109). In 105 he was elected to the consulship, and restored the discipline of the See also:army and introduced an improved See also:system of See also:drill. Subsequently, he went as See also:legate to Q. Mucius See also:Scaevola, See also:governor of See also:Asia. By assisting his See also:superior in his efforts to protect the provincials from the extortions of the publican, or farmers of taxes, Rufus incurred the hatred of the equestrian See also:order, to which the See also:publicani belonged. In 92 he was charged with the very offence of See also:extortion which he had done his utmost to prevent. The See also:charge was absurd, but as the juries at that See also:time were chosen from the See also:equites, his condemnation was only to be expected. Rufus accepted the See also:verdict with the resignation befitting a Stoic and See also:pupil of See also:Panaetius. He retired to Mytilene, and afterwards to See also:Smyrna, where he spent the See also:rest of his See also:life, and where See also:Cicero saw him as See also:late as the See also:year 78.

Although invited by See also:

Sulla to return to See also:Rome, Rufus refused to do so. It was doubtless during his stay at Smyrna that he wrote his auto-See also:biography and a See also:history of Rome in See also:Greek, See also:part of which is known to have been devoted to the Numantine War. He possessed a thorough knowledge of See also:law, and wrote See also:treatises on that subject, some fragments of which are quoted in the Digests. He was also well acquainted with Greek literature. See Cicero, See also:Pro Fonteio, 17, See also:Brutus, 22, 30; See also:Livy, epit. 70; See also:Macrobius, Sat. I. xvi. 34; See also:Appian, Hisp. 88; See also:Athenaeus iv. p. 168 ; W. H. Suringar, De Romanis Autobiographis (See also:Leiden, 1846) ; H.

See also:

Peter, Hiss. Rom. Reliquiae, I. cclxi.-cclxviii. (life), frags. p. 187 ; A. H. J. Greenidge, Hist. of Rome, i. p. 484.

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