Ῥουτίλιος Ῥοῦφος

Rutilius Rufus

Translated by David Whitehead18 Dec 2002Vetting: high6 revisions

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He lived in the time of Scipio;1 he campaigned with him,2 and wrote a history of the aforementioned events.3 He was at that time a chiliarch [= tribunus militum], as Appian says in the Roman History.4

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ῥουτίλιος Ῥοῦφος· ἐπὶ Σκιπίωνος ἦν, ὃς αὐτῷ συνεστράτευε, συγγράψας τὰ τότε φθάσαντα γενέσθαι· ὃς τηνικαῦτα χιλίαρχος ἐγεγόνει, ὥς φησιν Ἀππιανὸς ἐν τῇ Ῥωμαϊκῇ ἱστορίᾳ.

Betacode
*(routi/lios *(rou=fos: e)pi\ *skipi/wnos h)=n, o(\s au)tw=| sunestra/teue, suggra/yas ta\ to/te fqa/santa gene/sqai: o(\s thnikau=ta xili/arxos e)gego/nei, w(/s fhsin *)appiano\s e)n th=| *(rwmai+kh=| i(stori/a|.

Notes (4)

  1. P. Rutilius Rufus, born c.160 BCE, consul 105 BCE. See generally Ernst Badian in OCD(4) s.v. (p.1301).
  2. 1Scipio Aemilianus. ↩
  3. 2In Spain, 133 BCE. ↩
  4. 3Despite the impression given by this phrase, Rufus's lost history (written after his conviction for repetundae, and retirement to Smyrna, in 92) is thought to have covered not merely the Spanish campaigning but his whole adult life; and it has coloured all surviving accounts of the period. See E. Badian, 'The early historians', in T.A. Dorey (ed.), Latin Historians (London 1966) 1-38, at 23-25. ↩
  5. 4Appian, Iberica 382 Viereck-Roos-Gabba. For tribuni see generally chi 305. ↩

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