Rutilus
- a Roman surname, e. g. of the augur T. Virginius, Liv. 3, 7.
[Cossus, No. 7.]
praefect of the camp in the army of Drusus in Germany, B. C. 11. (Obsequ. 132.)
L. F. C. N., one of the distinguished plebeians, who obtained the highest offices of the state soon after the enactment of the Licinian laws. He was consul for the first time in B. C. 357 with Cn. Manlius Capitolinus, and carried on the war against the inhabitants of Privernum. He took the town, and obtained a triumph in consequence. In the following year, B. C. 356, he was appointed dictator in order to carry on the war against the Etruscans. This was the first time that a plebeian had attained this lignity; and the patricians were so indignant it what they chose to regard as a desecration of the office, that, notwithstanding the public danger, they threw every obstacle in the way of the preparations for the war. The people, however, eagerly supplied Rutilus with every thing that was needed, and enabled him to take the field with a well appointed army. Their expectations of success were fully realised. The plebeian dictator defeated the Etruscans with great slaughter; but is the senate refused him a triumph, notwithstanding his brilliant victory, he celebrated one by comnand of the people. In B. C. 352 he obtained the consulship a second time with P. Valerius Publicola; and in the following year, B. C. 351, he was the first plebeian censor. He was consul for the third time in B. C. 344 with T. Manlius Torquatus, and for the fourth time in B. C. 342 with Q. Servilius Ahala. In the latter year, which was the second of the Samnite war, Rutilus was stationed in Campania, and there discovered a formidable conspiracy among the Roman troops, which he quelled before it broke out by his wise and prudent measures. (Liv. 7.16, 17, 21, 22, 28, 38, 39.) The son of this Rutilus took the surname of Censorinus, which in the next generation entirely supplanted that of Rutilus, and became the name of the family. [Censorinus.]
1. Sp. Nautius Rutilus, is first mentioned by Dionysius in B. C. 493, as one of the most distinguished of the younger patricians at the time of the secession of the plebeians to the Sacred Mount. He was consul in B. C. 488 with Sex. Furius Medullinus Fusus, in which year Coriolanus marched against Rome. (Dionys. A. R. 6.69, 8.16, &c.; Liv. 2.39.)
2. C. Nautilus SP. F. SP. N. Rutilus, probably brother of No. 1., was consul for the first time B. C. 475, with P. Valerius Publicola, and laid waste the territory of the Volscians, but was unable to bring them to a battle. He was consul a second time in B. C. 458, with L. Minucius Augurinus. While Rutilus carried on the war with success against the Sabines, his colleague Minucius was defeated by the Aequians; and Rutilus had to return to Rome to appoint L. Quintius Cincinnatus dictator. (Liv. 2.52, 3.25, 26, 29; Dionys. A. R. 9.28, 35, 10.22. 23, 25.)
3. Sp. Nautilus Rutilus, consular tribune, B. . 424. (Liv. 4.35.)
4. Sp. Nautilus SP. F. SP. N. Rutilus, three times consular tribune, namely in B. C. 419, 416, 404. Livy says that Rutilus held the office a second time in 404, but the Capitoline Fasti make it a third time; and this is more consistent with Livy's own account, who had mentioned previously two tribunates of Rutilus. (Liv. 4.44, 47, 61; Fasti Capit.)
5. C. Nautius Rutilus, consul B. C. 411, with M. Papirius Mugillanus. (Liv. 4.52.)
6. Sp. Nautius SP. F. SP. N. Rutilus, consul B. C. 316 with M. Popillius Laenas. (Liv. 9.21; Fasti Capit.)
7. Sp. Nautius (Rutilus), an officer in the army of the consul L. Papirius Cursor, B. C. 293, distinguished himself greatly in the battle against the Samnites, and was rewarded in consequence by the consul. (Liv. 10.41, 44.)
8. C. Nautius Rutilus, consul B. C. 287 with M. Claudius Marcellus. (Fasti.)
1. C. Sempronius Rutilus, tribune of the plebs B. . 189, joined his colleague P. Sempronius Gracchus in a public prosecution of M'. Acilius Glabrio. (Liv. 37.57.)
2. Sempronius Rutilus, one of Caesar's legates in Gaul. (Caes. Gal. 7.90.)
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