Quintus Pompeius Rufus (Consul 88 BC)

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Quintus Pompeius Rufus († 88 BC ) was a politician of the late Roman Republic .

Pompey Rufus was the son or grandson of Quintus Pompeius , who lived in 141 BC. Was the first of his family to get to the consulate . As a tribune of the people 100 or 99 BC In BC Rufus tried in vain to call Quintus Caecilius Metellus Numidicus back from exile. 91 BC He was praetor urbanus . Together with Lucius Cornelius Sulla , the father-in-law of his son of the same name , Rufus was born in 88 BC. Chr. Consul. Rufus took action against the tribune Publius Sulpicius Rufus , who wanted to distribute the new Italian citizens to all tribes and to give Gaius Marius the command against Mithridates . The followers of Sulpicius killed the younger Pompey Rufus. After Sulla's march on Rome , Pompeius Rufus supported him in his measures against their political opponents (including Marius) and was given the previous command of the proconsul Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo . Its soldiers killed (perhaps at the instigation of Strabos) Pompey Rufus in his year in office as consul.

Rufus' portrait is recorded on coins that his grandson Quintus Pompeius Rufus received in the 1950s. Was minted.

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SURNAME Pompey Rufus, Quintus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rufus, Quintus Pompey
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman politician, consul 88 BC Chr.
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 88 BC Chr.