Rusuccurum, a town of Mauritania, believed to be modern Algiers.
Rutēni, a people of Gaul, now Ruvergne, in Guienne. Cæsar, Gallic War.
Rutila, a deformed old woman, who lived near 100 years, &c. Pliny, bk. 7, ch. 48.—Juvenal, satire 10, li. 294.
Publius Rutilius Rufus, a Roman consul in the age of Sylla, celebrated for his virtues and writings. He refused to comply with the requests of his friends because they were unjust. When Sylla had banished him from Rome he retired to Smyrna, amidst the acclamations and praises of the people; and when some of his friends wished him to be recalled home by means of a civil war, he severely reprimanded them, and said, that he wished rather to see his country blush at his exile, than to plunge it into distress by his return. He was the first who taught the Roman soldiers the principles of fencing, and by thus mixing dexterity with valour, rendered their attacks more certain, and more irresistible. During his banishment he employed his time in study, and wrote a history of Rome in Greek, and an account of his own life in Latin, besides many other works. Ovid, Fasti, bk. 6, li. 563.—Seneca, de Beneficiis.—Cicero, Brutus; On Oratory, bk. 1, ch. 53.—Valerius Maximus, bk. 2, ch. 3; bk. 6, ch. 4.—Paterculus, bk. 2, ch. 9.——A Roman proconsul, who is supposed to have encouraged Mithridates to murder all the Romans who were in his province.——Lupus, a pretor, who fled away with three cohorts from Tarracina.——A rhetorician. Quintilian, bk. 3, ch. 1.——A man who went against Jugurtha.——A friend of Nero.——Claudius Numantianus, a poet of Gaul, in the reign of Honorius. According to some he wrote a poem on mount Ætna. He wrote also an itinerary, published by Burman in the Poetæ Latini Minores, Leiden, 4to, 1731.
Rutilus, a rich man reduced to beggary by his extravagance. Juvenal, satire 11, li. 2.
Rutŭba, a river of Liguria, falling from the Apennines into the Mediterranean. Lucan, bk. 2, li. 422.——Of Latium, falling into the Tiber. Lucan, bk. 2, li. 422.
Rutŭbus, a gladiator, &c. Horace, bk. 2, satire 7, li. 96.
Rŭtŭli, a people of Latium, known as well as the Latins, by the name of Aborigines. When Æneas came into Italy, Turnus was their king, and they supported him in the war which he waged against this foreign prince. The capital of their dominions was called Ardea. Ovid, Fasti, bk. 4, li. 883; Metamorphoses, bk. 14, li. 455, &c.—Virgil, Æneid, 7, &c.—Pliny, bk. 3, ch. 5.
Rŭtŭpæ, a seaport town on the southern coasts of Britain, abounding in excellent oysters, whence the epithet of Rutupinus. Some suppose that it is the modern town of Dover, but others Richborough or Sandwich. Lucan, bk. 6, li. 67.—Juvenal, satire 4, li. 141.