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Arulenus Rusticus
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<h2 id="life">Life</h2> <p>Arulenus Rusticus was <a href="/facts/Tribune_of_the_plebs/xav46tnr">Tribune of the plebs</a> in AD 66, in which year Thrasea was condemned to death by the <a href="/facts/Roman_Senate/NXK83zU9">Roman Senate</a>; he would have placed his <a href="/facts/Veto/F7oEHNlw">veto</a> upon the <i><a href="/facts/Senatus_consultum/1NWQ9dS1">senatus consultum</a></i>, had not Thrasea prevented him, as he would only have brought certain destruction upon himself without saving the life of the defendant.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> He was <a href="/facts/Praetor/or3Q9946">praetor</a> in the civil wars after the death of <a href="/facts/Nero/1w3NteNP">Nero</a> (69 AD), when as one of the senate's ambassadors to the Flavian armies he was wounded by the soldiers of <a href="/facts/Quintus_Petillius_Cerialis/82jzoQI7">Petilius Cerialis</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a> Although Arulenus Rusticus attained a suffect consulship during the reign of <a href="/facts/Domitian/tR00gRmQ">Domitian</a>, in the following year he was condemned to death because he wrote a <a href="/facts/Panegyric/xcb04j61">panegyric</a> to Thrasea. </p> <blockquote><p>When I was once lecturing in Rome, that famous Rusticus, whom Domitian later killed through envy at his repute, was among my hearers, and a soldier came through the audience and delivered to him a letter from the emperor. There was a silence and I, too, made a pause, that he might read his letter; but he refused and did not break the seal until I had finished my lecture and the audience had dispersed. Because of this incident everyone admired the dignity of the man.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a></p></blockquote> <p><a href="/facts/Suetonius/djJaFVvM">Suetonius</a> attributes to him a panegyric on <a href="/facts/Helvidius_Priscus/YtTAXaob">Helvidius Priscus</a>, but the latter work was composed by <a href="/facts/Herennius_Senecio/BEQBwkef">Herennius Senecio</a>, as we learn both from <a href="/facts/Tacitus/u6m0E441">Tacitus</a> and <a href="/facts/Pliny_the_Younger/jdhG8I8b">Pliny the Younger</a>. </p> <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul> <li>Philosophy portal</li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Junia_(gens)/a8YxFlGo">Junia (gens)</a></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Tacitus/u6m0E441">Tacitus</a>, <i>Annals</i>, xvi. 26, <i>Histories</i>, iii. 80, <i>Agricola</i>, 2</li> <li><a href="/facts/Suetonius/djJaFVvM">Suetonius</a>, <i>Domitian</i>, 10</li> <li><a href="/facts/Dio_Cassius/KJCU0Ubw">Dio Cassius</a>, lxvii. 13</li> <li><a href="/facts/Pliny_the_Younger/jdhG8I8b">Pliny</a>, <i>Epistles</i>, i. 5, 14; iii. 11</li> <li><a href="/facts/Plutarch/p3bywktN">Plutarch</a>, <i>de Curiositate</i> 15 (<i>Moralia</i> 822D–E)</li> <li><i>Prosopographia Imperii Romani</i> (2nd ed.) I 730</li> <li>R. Syme, 'A Political Group', Roman Papers VII, pp. 568–587</li> <li> This article incorporates text from a publication now in the <a href="/facts/Public_domain/YWKMDKw4">public domain</a>: <a href="/facts/William_Smith_(lexicographer)/FMSstmWB">Smith, William</a>, ed. (1870). "Rusticus, Junius (2)". <i><a href="/facts/Dictionary_of_Greek_and_Roman_Biography_and_Mythology/GGY10Pdg">Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology</a></i>. Vol. 3. p. 680.</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Paul Gallivan, "The Fasti for A.D. 70–96", Classical Quarterly, 31 (1981), pp. 191, 218 <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/638472" target="_blank">https://www.jstor.org/stable/638472</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Salomies, Adoptive and Polyonymous Nomenclature in the Roman Empire (Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 1992), pp. 150f <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Tacitus, Annales, XVI.26 <a href="/wiki/Tacitus" target="_blank">/wiki/Tacitus</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Tacitus, Historiae, III.80 <a href="/wiki/Histories_(Tacitus)" target="_blank">/wiki/Histories_(Tacitus)</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Plutarch. On being a busybody. p. 15. <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>