Rubrius

• the name of a Roman gens; masc. Rubrius, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 25, § 64; id. Phil. 2, 16, 40; id. Brut. 45, 168; Caes. B. C. 1, 23.—Fem. Rubria, Cic. Fam. 9, 21, 3.—Adj.: Lex Rubria (or lex Galliae Cisalpinae), of the year B. C. 43; v. Becker, Antiq. 3, 1, p. 51, and the authors there cited.—Hence,
• II Rŭ_brĭ-ānus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to a Rubrius, Rubrian: senatusconsultum, Dig. 40, 5, 26, § 9; 40, 5, 28 pr.

1. Rubrius, tribune of the plebs along with C. Gracchus, proposed the law for founding the colony at Carthage, which was carried into effect. (Plut. C. Gracch. 10; comp. Appian, App. BC 1.12.)

2. Q. Rubrius Varro. who was declared a public enemy along with Marius in B. C. 88, is mentioned by Cicero (Cic. Brut. 45) as an energetic wntd passionate accuser.

3. Rubrius, one of the companions of C. Verres in his iniquities (Cic. Ver. 1.25). He seems to have been a different person from Q. Rubrius, who is also mentioned in connection with Verres. (Verr. 3.80.)

4. L. Rubrius, a Roman eques at Syracuse, when Verres was governor of Sicily. (Cic. Ver. 3.57.)

5. Rubrius, was propraetor in Macedonia about B. C. 67, in which year M. Cato served under him as tribune of the soldiers. (Piut. Cat. min. 9.)

6. L. Rubrius, a senator, was taken prisoner by Caesar at the capture of Corfinium, at the beginning of B. C. 49, and was dismissed by him uninjured. (Caes. Civ. 1.23.)

7. M. Rubrius, was with M. Cato in Utica at the time of his death. (Pint. (Cat. min. 62, 63.)

8. Rubrius Ruga, was one of Caesar's assassins, B. C. 44. (Appian, App. BC 1.113, with the note of Schweighäuser.) He may have been the same as either No. 6 or 7, both of whom belonged to the Pompeian party.

9. L. Rubrius, of Casinum, made M. Antonius his heir. (Cic. Phil. 2.16.)

10. Rubrius, a Roman eques, accused at the beginning of the reign of Tiberius. (Tac. Ann. 1.73.)

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 two hundred and fifty thousand sesterces (about 1953l. 2s. 6d.). As this is considered by Pliny to be a very large sum, it may give us some notion of the fortunes made by physicians at Rome about the beginning of the empire. [W.A.G]

was apprehended in attempting to fly to the Parthians in A. D. 32, but escaped punishment from the forgetfulness rather than the mercy of Tiberius. (Tac. Ann. 6.14.)

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