Publius Rutilius Rufus
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 4 anchored passages
Publius Rutilius · Rutilius · my uncle · our Rutilius
in the texts
On the Commonwealth
Roman statesman who related the dialogue to Cicero and Scipio's friend, also a character within it.
And when Publius Rutilius—who is for us the authority of this discourse—had come at the same time, he greeted him too and bade him sit beside Tubero.
but the discussion of the most illustrious and wisest men of our state, all of a single age, is to be recalled from memory—a discussion which was once set forth to you and to me, when I was a young man, by Publius Rutilius Rufus, at Smyrna, while we were together for several days;
On the Nature of the Gods
Roman statesman and jurist, uncle of Cotta, unjustly exiled despite his integrity.
Why is my uncle, a most blameless and most learned man, Publius Rutilius, in exile;
As if I had a little while ago complained about the Formian farm of Publius Rutilius and not about his lost welfare.