Antonius Rufus

Antonius Rufus was the name of a number of men of ancient Rome:

• Antonius Rufus (grammarian), Latin grammarian
• Marcus Antonius Rufus, served as suffect consul of the Roman senate with Marcus Pompeius Silvanus Staberius Flavinus in the year 45 (see List of Roman consuls)
• Gaius Antonius Rufus, procurator Augusti (that is, chief financial officer of a Roman province) for the province of Pannonia around the 3rd century. There was an inscription to him in a temple dedicated to the Mithraic mysteries in the legionary base of Poetovio (modern Ptuj).^[1]
• Antonius Rufus, a Jewish freedman (or libertinus) of the gens Antonia from Apollonopolis Magna (modern Edfu) who lived in the Jewish quarter of that city in the 1st century, and is mentioned on several ostraka as the father of two sons, Nikon and Theodotos.^[2]
• Marcus Antonius Rufus, a prominent Roman of the time of Hadrian (that is, early 2nd century), who appears to have lived in Dioskourias, based on inscriptions we have of him there.^[3]
• Antonius Rufus Vacariensis, Latin name of Antoine Roussel (that is, Antoine Roussel from La Vacquerie), brother of French cleric Gérard Roussel (or Gerardus Rufus Vacariensis). He lived in the 16th century, and worked as a corrector for printer Henri Estienne, and as a writer contributed work to collections edited by the theologian Josse van Clichtove.^[4]

Notes

1. Daniels, C.M. (1975). "The role of the Roman army in the spread and practice of Mithraism". In Hinnells, John R. Mithraic Studies: Proceedings of the First International Congress of Mithraic Studies 1. Manchester University Press. p. 260. ISBN 9780719005367. Retrieved 2016-02-14.
2. Kasher, Aryeh (1985). "The Jews in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt: The Struggle for Equal Rights". Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism (Mohr Siebeck) 7: 81–82, 94. ISBN 9783161448294. ISSN 0721-8753. Retrieved 2016-02-14.
3. American Philosophical Society (1987). "Public Organization in Ancient Greece: A Documentary Study". Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society (American Philosophical Society) 176: 280. ISBN 9780871691767. ISSN 0065-9738. Retrieved 2016-02-14.
4. d'Étaples, Jacques Lefèvre (1972). Rice, Eugene F., ed. The Prefatory Epistles of Jacques Lefévre D'Etaples and Related Texts. Collection spéciale: CER. Columbia University Press. p. 320. ISBN 9780231031639. Retrieved 2016-02-14.