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Rh 670 RUFUS. Rufus would not have written any thing so full of popular superstitions and absurdities. The frag- ment treats of thirteen different plants, in as many chapters, in which, says Haller, " Medica- rum viriura adest farrago verarum et falsarum." The names of several of his lost works have been preserved by Galen, Suidas, and especially by the Arabic writers, who appear to have been well ac- quainted with his books, and to have translated almost all of them into their language (see Wen- rich, De Auctor. Graecor. Version. Arab. Syriac. Armen. S^e. p.221,&c.). Of these were five books TlipL AjotTTyy, De Victus Ratione, quoted by Ori- basius, Suidas, and Ibn Baitar (vol. i. pp. 366, 378, 533, ii. 390) ; eepairevriKci, De Methodo Medendi (Galen, De Simplic. Medicam. Temper, ac Facult. vi. praef. vol. xi. p. 796), from which work probably the fragments preserved by Aetius are taken ; Ilepl MeAa7xo£as, De Melancholia (Galen, De Atra BUe^ c. i. vol. v. p. 105 ; Ibn Baitar, vol. i. p. 89) ; Uepl Aiair-ns TIAeSvrcov, De Vidu Naviganiium (Suid. ; orZ>e Viatorum Vivendi Ratione., Wenrich) ; Tlepl TpavfrnriKcSu ^apfiaKwv, De Medicamentis Vulnerum (Suid. ; or De Vul- neribus, Wenrich) ; Uepl ^ukwv, De Ficubus* (Suid. ; Oribas. Coll. Medic, i. 40, p. 213 ; or De Mariscis., Wenrich) ; Ilepl 'Apx«^«s 'larpi/f^?, De Vetere Medicina (Suid.) ; TiepX TdKaicTos, De Lacte ; Tlepl Oluov^ De Vino ; Ilepl MeAtros, De Melle (Suid.; Oribas. Coll. Medio, ii. 61, v. 7, pp. 2;^>2, 266 ; Ibn Baitar, ii. p. 420, &c. Perhaps these tliree formed part of his work on Diet) ; De Mor- his qui Artictdis continguni {Onh?iS. Coll. Medic, viii. 47, p. 362). The titles of twenty or ' thirty other trea- tises are enumerated in Wenrich, but many of them (as indeed some of those mentioned above,) appear to have been only the different chapters of some extensive work. Rufus was also one of those who commented on some of the works of Hippo- crates, and he is said by Galen {Comment, in Hip- pocr. " Epid. F/." i. 10. vol. xvii. pt. i. p. 849) to have been a diligent student of them, and to have always endeavoured to preserve the ancient readings of the text {Comment, in Hippocr. " Proirlmt. /.'* ii. 58, vol. xvi. p, 636). Further information re- specting Rufus and his writings may be found in Fabricius, Bibl. Graec. vol. iii. p. 102, xiii. 385, ed. vet. ; Haller's Bibl. Bolan., Anatom., ^ Medic. Rrai-t. ; Sprengel's Hist, de la Mid. ; Choulant's Handb. der Buclierkunde fur die Aeltere Medicin; and the Pennr/ Cyclopaedia, from which some of the preceding remarks are taken. [ W. A. G.] RUFUS. 1. A lyric poet, and a contemporary of Ovid. [Rufus, Antonius.] 2. A friend of Pliny the younger, who ad- dresses two letters to him {Ep. v. 21, vii. 25). His gentile name is not mentioned by Pliny. There were four other correspondents of Pliny who bear the cognomen of Rufus ; namely, Cal- visius, Caninius, Octavius, and Sempronius, all of whom are mentioned below in alphabetical order. 3. Of Perinthus, a Greek sophist, was a pupil of Herodes Atticus. An account of him is given by Philostratus. ( Vit. Soph. ii. 17, pp. 597, 598, ed. Olearius ; comp. Westermann, Gesch. d. Griech. Beredtsamkcit., § 92, n. 6.) 4. A Greek writer, the author of a work on Ficosis Tumoribus sive Excrescentiis." RUFUS. Music, in three books, in which he treated of the origin of tragedy and comedy. Sopater availed himself to a considerable extent of this work of Rufus. (Phot. Cod. 161 ; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. ii. p. 320.) 5. The author of a short treatise on rhetoric, published for the first time along with a work of Tiberius on the same subject, by Boissonade, Lon- don, 1815. (Westermann, Gesch. d. Griech. Be- redtsainkeit, § 104, n. 2.) RUFUS, ACI'LIUS, a contemporary of the younger Pliny, was consul designatus in A. D. 102, in which year he spoke in the senate respecting the accusation of Varenus Rufus by the Bithynians. (Plin. Ep. V. 20. § 6, vi. 13.) RUFUS, AEMI'LIUS, served as praefectus of the cavalry under Domitius Corbulo in Armenia, and, on account of his misconduct, was degraded and punished by Corbulo. (Frontin. Strat. iv. 1. § 28.) RUFUS, AN'NIUS LUSCUS. [Luscus, Annius, No. 3.] RUFUS, A'NNIUS, procurator of Judaea at the death of the emperor Augustus, A. d. 14 (Jo- seph. Ant. xviii. 2. § 2). He was succeeded in the government by Valerius Gratus. [Gratus.] RUFUS, ANTO'NIUS, the name of a Latin grammarian, quoted by Quintilian (i. 5. § 43) and Velius Longus (p. 2237, ed. Putsch.). The Scho- liast Cruquianus (ad Hor. Ar. Poct. 288) speaks of an Antonius Rufus who wrote plays both prae- textatae and togatae, but whether he is the same as the grammarian, must be left uncertain. Glan- dorp, in his Onomasticon (p. 9^)^ states on the authority of Acron that Antonius Rufus translated both Homer and Pindar, but there is no passage in Acron in which the name of Antonius Rufus occurs. Glandorp probably had in his mind the statement of the Scholiast on Horace already re- ferred to, and connected it with a line in Ovid {ex Pont. iv. 16. 28), in which Rufus is spoken of as a lyric poet ; but who this Rufus was, whether the same as Antonius Rufus or not, cannot be determined. (Wernsdorf, Poetae Laiini Minores., vol. iii. p. 30, vol. iv. p. 585.) RUFUS, ASFNIUS, a friend of Tacitus and the younger Pliny, the latter of whom recommends Asinius Bassus, the son of Rufus, to Fundanus. (Plin. Ep. iv. 15.) RUFUS, ATE'RIUS, a Roman eques, waa murdered in the theatre, as had been foreshown him in a dream during the preceding night. (Val. Max. i. 7. § 8.) RUFUS, ATI'LIUS, a man of consular rank, was governor of Syria during the reign of Do- mitian, and died just before the return of Agricola from Britain, a. d. 84. (Tac. Agric. 40.) RUFUS, A'TIUS, one of the officers in Pom- pey's army in Greece, in B. c. 48, accused Afranius of treachery on account of his defeat in Spain in the preceding vear. (Caes. B. C. iii. 83.) RUFUS, AUFIDIE'NUS, praefectus of the camp at Nauportus, when the formidable insur- rection of the Paiinonian legions broke out on the death of Augustus, was an especial object of the wrath of the soldiers. (Tac. Ann. i. 20.) RUFUS, AURF/LIUS, a name which occurs only on coins, of which a specimen is annexed. It has on the obverse the head of Pallas, and on the reverse Jupiter driving a quadriga, with the legend AV. RVF. (Eckhel, vol. v. p. 148.)
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