Arulenus Rusticus
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Lucius Junius Arulenus Rusticus, (c. 20-93 AD), more usually called Arulenus Rusticus, was a friend and pupil of Thrasea Paetus, and, like the latter, an ardent admirer of Stoic philosophy. He was Tribune of the plebs in 66 BC, in which year Thrasea was condemned to death by the Roman Senate; and he would have placed his veto upon the senatus consultum, had not Thrasea prevented him, as he would only have brought certain destruction upon himself without saving the life of his master. He was Praetor in the civil wars after the death of Nero, (69 AD), and was subsequently put to death by Domitian, because he wrote a panegyric upon Thrasea. Suetonius attributes to him a panegyric upon Helvidius Priscus; but the latter work was composed by Herennius Senecio, as we learn both from Tacitus and Pliny.
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- Tacitus, Annals, xvi. 25, Histories, iii. 80, Agricola, 2
- Suetonius, Domitian, 10
- Dio Cassius, lxvii. 13
- Pliny, Epistles, i. 5, 14, iii. 11
- Plutarch, de Curios.
This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1870).
