Rutilius
historical figure · 9 works · 13 mentions · 13 anchored passages
Our Rutilius · the exile of Rutilius
in the texts
Letters to Lucilius
Roman statesman who bore unjust condemnation and exile with equanimity.
Metellus bore exile bravely, Rutilius even gladly;
in it is the chest of Regulus, the wound Cato opened with his own hand, the exile of Rutilius, the poisoned cup that carried Socrates from the prison to heaven.
The innocence and virtue of Rutilius would have lain hidden, had he not suffered wrong;
On Benefits
Roman statesman forced into hiding in Asia despite his innocence, cited as an example of civic ingratitude.
Rutilius bore the price of his innocence in lying hidden in Asia;
2 Our Rutilius more spiritedly, when a certain man was consoling him and saying that civil arms were at hand, that it would shortly come to pass that all the exiles should return:
On Moral Ends
A learned figure whose judgment Lucilius reportedly dreaded.
Would that the famous Persius were alive — and Scipio and Rutilius far more so — out of dread of whose judgment Lucilius said he wrote for the people of Tarentum, Consentia, and Sicily!
The Rights of War and Peace
Roman figure cited as an example of self-sacrifice for the public good.
” Seneca, the writer already quoted, produces two instances, the one of Callistratus at Athens, and the other of Rutilius at Rome, who refused to be restored from banishment thinking it better for two individuals to suffer hardship, than for the public to be plunged into calamities.
Consolation to Marcia
Publius Rutilius Rufus, Roman statesman unjustly exiled, invoked as a figure of exile.
after these, exile (your son was no more innocent than Rutilius), prison (he was no wiser than Socrates), a breast pierced by a self-inflicted wound (he was no more blameless than Cato).
On Providence
Publius Rutilius Rufus, Roman statesman unjustly condemned and exiled, cited as an exemplar of enduring exile with equanimity and refusing recall under Sulla.
Because he bore the loss of his fatherland with more equanimity than he bore his own exile?
she tries fire upon Mucius, poverty upon Fabricius, exile upon Rutilius, torture upon Regulus, poison upon Socrates, death upon Cato.
On the Happy Life
A Roman statesman known for his integrity, cited as an example of a virtuous man still slandered.
Shall I wait, forsooth, for anything to be left unscathed by malice, to which neither Rutilius nor Cato was sacred?
On Tranquillity of Mind
Good man forced to live in exile, cited among examples of good men meeting unjust ends.
When good men come to a bad end—when Socrates is forced to die in prison, Rutilius to live in exile, Pompey and Cicero to offer their necks to their own clients, when that Cato, the living image of the virtues, falling upon his sword, declares openly that all is over both with himself and with the republic—it is inevitable that one should be tormented that fortune pays out such unjust rewards.
De Fuga in Persecutione
A martyr who fled persecution repeatedly and paid for his safety, yet was eventually seized and martyred by fire.
Rutilius, a most holy martyr, when he had so often fled persecution from place to place, and had even redeemed his peril, as he thought, with money—after all the security which he had provided for himself, being unexpectedly seized and offered to the magistrate, was torn with torments, I believe for the chastisement of his flight;