Arruntius

Arruntĭus, ii, m., a Roman nomen.

• I L. Arruntius, consul A.U.C. 759, Tac. A. 1, 13; 3, 11; 6, 5; prob. the same as the historian L. Arruntius, who composed a work on the Punic Wars, Sen. Ep. 114, 17 sqq.—
• II Arruntius, a celebrated artist under Claudius Caesar, Plin. 29, 1, 5, § 7.—
• III Arruntius Stella, a poet, Stat. S. 1, 2; Mart. 6, 21.—
• IV Arruntius Caelius, a Latin grammarian, Diom. I. p. 307 P.; Prisc. III. p. 607 P.

Arruntius, ī, m., ein röm. Eigenname, unter dem am bekanntesten: a) L. Arruntius, Konsul im Jahre 22 v. Chr. mit Aeserninus (dah. Plur. Aesernini et Arruntii, Leute wie Äs.u. Arr., Tac. ann. 11, 7), als Staatsmann nicht unbedeutend, Vell. 2, 86, 2. Tac. ann. 1, 13; 1, 74 u.a.; bekannt als Historiker, Verf. einer Gesch. des punischen Krieges, Sen. ep. 114, 17. Plin. ind. libr. III, V u. VI; Gegner der neumodischen Beredsamkeit, Sen. contr. 7. praef. § 7. – b) ein berühmter Arzt unter dem Kaiser Klaudius, Plin. 29, 7 sqq. (wo auch Plur. Arruntii, Leute wie Arr.). – c) L. Arruntius Stella, gew. bl. Stella, ein röm. Dichter unter Domitian, Freund des Martial und Statius, Stat. silv. 1. praef. u. 1, 2. Mart. 1, 7, 1; 1, 61, 4; 4, 6, 5 u.a. Sidon. carm. 9, 264: Konsul wahrsch. 101 n. Chr., Corp. inscr. Lat. 6, 1492. Vgl. Seuffel Gesch. der röm. Literat.⁵ § 323, 1. – d) Arruntius Celsus, gew. bl. Celsus, ein röm. Grammatiker unter Antoninus Pius, Charis. 200, 27; 213, 18; 222, 6 u. 30. Prisc. 3, 22; 6, 67 u.a.

Arruntĭus, (11) ĭī, m. , nom dʼh. : Stat. S. 1, 2, 71.

Arru'ntius

a physician at Rome, who lived probably about the beginning or middle of the first century after Christ, and is mentioned )by Pliny (Plin. Nat. 29.5) as having gained by his practice the annual income of 250,000 sesterces (about 195350.2s. 6d.). This may give us some notion of the fortunes made by physicians at Rome about the beginning of the empire. [W.A.G]

Arru'ntius

1. Arruntius, proscribed by the triumvirs, and killed, B. C. 43. His son escaped, but perished at sea, and his wife killed herself by voluntary starvation, when she head of the death of her son. (Appian, App. BC 4.21.)

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2. Arruntius, was also proscribed by the triumvirs in B. C. 43, but escaped to Pompey, and was restored to the state together with Pompey. (Appian, App. BC 4.46; Vell. 2.77.) This is probably the same Arruntius who commanded the left wing of the fleet of Octavianus at the battle of Actium, B. C. 31. (Vell. 2.85; comp. Plut. Ant. 66.) There was a L. Arruntius, consul in B. C. 22 (D. C. 54.1), who appears to be the same person as the one mentioned above, and may perhaps also be the same as the L. Arruntius, the friend of Trebatius, whom Cicero mentions (ad Fam. 7.18) in B. C. 53.

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3. L. Arruntius, son of the preceding, consul A. D. 6. Augustus was said to have declared in his last illness, that Arruntius was not unworthy of the empire, and would have boldness enough to seize it, if an opportunity presented. This, as well as his riches, talents, and reputation, rendered him an object of suspicion to Tiberius. In A. D. 15, when the Tiber had flooded a great part of the city, he was appointed to take measures to restrain it within its bed, and he consulted the senate on the subject. The province of Spain had been assigned to him, but Tiberius, through jealousy, kept him at Rome ten years after his appointment, and obliged him to govern the province by his legates. He was accused on one occasion by Aruseius and Sanquinius, but was acquitted, and his accusers punished. He was subsequently charged in A. D. 37, as an accomplice in the crimes of Albucilla; and though his friends wished him to delay his death, as Tiberius was in his last illness, and could not recover, he refused to listen to their advice, as he knew the wickedness of Caligula, who would succeeed to the empire, and accordingly put himself to death by opening his veins. (Tac. Ann. 1.8, 13, 76, 79, 6.27, Hist. 2.65, Ann. 6.5, 7, 47, 48; D. C. 55.25, 58.27.)

It was either this Arruntius or his father, in all probability, who wrote a history of the first Punic war, in which he imitated the style of Sallust. (Senec. Epist. 114.)

Arru'ntius Celsus

[Celsus.]

Arru'ntius Stella

[Stella.]