Quintus Pompeius Rufus (tribune 52 BC)

Denarius of Quintus Pompeius Rufus with the head of Q. Pomponius Rufus (RVFVS · COS - Q · POM · RVFI) on the reverse and the head of L. Cornelius Sulla on the obverse (SVLLA · COS).

Quintus Pompeius Rufus was a politician of the late Roman Republic .

Pompey Rufus was a grandson of Lucius Cornelius Sulla ; his father, Quintus Pompeius Rufus , who had married Cornelia, a daughter of Sulla, came during riots in 88 BC. Around. His sister Pompeia was temporarily the wife of Gaius Julius Caesar .

As a mint master (tresvir monetalis), Quintus Pompeius Rufus had a mint in about 54 BC. BC (perhaps as early as 59 BC) Coins with the portraits of his two grandfathers Sulla and Quintus Pompeius Rufus , dating from 88 BC. BC had been consuls together . 54 BC BC he sued Marcus Valerius Messalla Rufus, who was elected consul, in vain for electoral fraud and was even thrown into prison.

52 BC Pompey Rufus was tribune of the people . When Publius Clodius Pulcher was killed by people Titus Annius Milos in a street fight , he fueled popular anger with other tribunes. In the increasing anarchy, Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus was elected sole consul. Pompey Rufus supported his measures to restore order, which included Milo being exiled. Immediately after the end of his tenure in December 52 BC. However, Pompey Rufus himself was accused by Marcus Caelius Rufus of inciting violence (de vi) and after the conviction had to go into exile in Bauli in Campania . In the following year 51 BC The false rumor was spread that Pompey Rufus had murdered Marcus Tullius Cicero, who was traveling to Cilicia . It is not mentioned later, but it could be identical to a Pompey Rufus mentioned during the civil war in Africa.

literature

Marieluise Deißmann-Merten : Pompeius I. 6. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 4, Stuttgart 1972, Sp. 1028.
Jörg Fündling : Pompey [I 7]. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 10, Metzler, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-476-01480-0 .

Web links

Coin of Quintus Pompeius Rufus with portraits of his grandfathers (Münzkabinett - Staatliche Museen zu Berlin)

Remarks

^ Plutarch, Marius 35, Sulla 8, Appian, Bell. civ. I 56.
^ MH Crawford, Roman Republican Coinage , I, Cambridge - ea, 1974, p. 456 , no. 434.
↑ Dio Cassius, XL 45.2-3
↑ Asconius Pedianus, 32-52C, Cassius Dio, XL 49. See Cicero, Pro Milone 45, 90-91.
^ Asconius Pedianus, 51.
↑ Valerius Maximus, IV 2 § 7, Cassius Dio, XL 55.1-4. Cf. Caelius in Cicero, Ad Familiares VIII 1.4.
^ Caelius in Cicero, Ad Familiares VIII 1.4.
^ [Gaius Iulius Caesar], Bellum Africum 85.7 .

personal data
SURNAME	Pompey Rufus, Quintus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Rufus, Quintus Pompey
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Roman politician, tribune 52 BC Chr.
DATE OF BIRTH	1st century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	1st century BC Chr.

[1] Plutarch, Marius 35, Sulla 8, Appian, Bell. civ. I 56.

[2] MH Crawford, Roman Republican Coinage , I, Cambridge - ea, 1974, p. 456 , no. 434.

[3] Dio Cassius, XL 45.2-3

[4] Asconius Pedianus, 32-52C, Cassius Dio, XL 49. See Cicero, Pro Milone 45, 90-91.

[5] Asconius Pedianus, 51.

[6] Valerius Maximus, IV 2 § 7, Cassius Dio, XL 55.1-4. Cf. Caelius in Cicero, Ad Familiares VIII 1.4.

[7] Caelius in Cicero, Ad Familiares VIII 1.4.

[8] [Gaius Iulius Caesar], Bellum Africum 85.7 .