Vettius Rufinus

Vettius Rufinus was a Roman consul from late antiquity .

Almost nothing is known about Rufinus. In most sources he is only called Rufinus, only on an inscription from southern Italy, the probably complete version of which we have only received through copies from the Renaissance , does the name Vettius come across. A relationship with Vettius Cossinius Rufinus , the consul of the year 316, is likely, he could have been his son or nephew. Presumably Vettius Rufinus is identical to Rufinus, who can be traced back to the Praetorian prefect between 318 and 320, perhaps as a companion of the emperor's son Crispus in Gaul .

In the year 323 Rufinus held the consulate as second consul (consul posterior) together with Acilius Severus , which at that time hardly had any political weight, but was nevertheless considered particularly honorable. The consular office had an eponymous function, so the years were named after the two consuls, which is why Rufinus' name appears quite often in the sources - especially in consular fasts and inscriptions.

literature

• Arnold Hugh Martin Jones , John Robert Martindale, John Morris : Vettius Rufinus 24. In: The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire (PLRE). Volume 1, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1971, ISBN 0-521-07233-6 , pp. 781-782.
• Otto Seeck : Rufinus 14 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume IA, 1, Stuttgart 1914, column 1186 f.

Remarks

1. ↑ CIL 10, 407 .
2. ↑ This is what Otto Seeck suspects : Rufinus 14 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume IA, 1, Stuttgart 1914, Sp. 1186-1187, here Sp. 1187.
3. ↑ Codex Theodosianus 5,2,1; 6.35.3; 7.21.1; 13.3.2.
4. ↑ Fasti 10.407; AE 1908, 107 (also reproduced in: Hermann Dessau , Inscriptiones Latinae selectae 9420); AE 1935, 146 ; Rossi , Inscriptiones Christianae Urbis Romae. New Series 3,6497.