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Arulenus Rusticus
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<p>Quintus Junius Arulenus Rusticus (c. 35 – 93 AD) was a <a href="/facts/Roman_Empire/l4E1aUuV">Roman</a> <a href="/facts/Roman_Senate/NXK83zU9">Senator</a> and a friend and follower of <a href="/facts/Thrasea_Paetus/tbkN9tQk">Thrasea Paetus</a>, and like him an ardent admirer of <a href="/facts/Stoicism/hQu81X5x">Stoic</a> philosophy. Arulenus Rusticus attained a <a href="/facts/Roman_consul/7Yh7yLJp">suffect consulship</a> in the <i><a href="/facts/Nundinium/n3jDEtl4">nundinium</a></i> of September to December 92 with <a href="/facts/Gaius_Julius_Silanus/cDutpuaw">Gaius Julius Silanus</a> as his colleague. He was one of a group of Stoics who opposed the perceived tyranny and autocratic tendencies of certain emperors, known today as the <a href="/facts/Stoic_Opposition/aTmrF79G">Stoic Opposition</a>. </p><p>His contemporaries referred to him in varying ways. The <i><a href="/facts/Fasti/S2KvUajY">Fasti</a></i> of <a href="/facts/Potentia/KS51KQCU">Potentia</a> and <a href="/facts/Fasti_Ostienses/uoPBsypa">Ostia</a> call him Q. Arulenus Rusticus, while <a href="/facts/Tacitus/u6m0E441">Tacitus</a>, <a href="/facts/Pliny_the_Younger/jdhG8I8b">Pliny the Younger</a>, and <a href="/facts/Dio_Cassius/KJCU0Ubw">Dio Cassius</a> call him Arulenus Rusticus or Rusticus Arulenus, yet <a href="/facts/Suetonius/djJaFVvM">Suetonius</a> calls him Junius Rusticus. That his brother was a friend of <a href="/facts/Pliny_the_Younger/jdhG8I8b">Pliny the Younger</a> named Junius Mauricus, the senator Junius Rusticus (attested as alive in AD 29) is commonly identified as his father, and <a href="/facts/Quintus_Junius_Rusticus/FI7tGpko">Quintus Junius Rusticus</a> (suffect consul in 133 and ordinary consul in 162) as his grandson, only increases the perplexity. In his monograph on Roman naming practices, Olli Salomies attempted to determine to which <a href="/facts/Gens/jn2RU5fn">gens</a> Arulenus Rusticus belonged—Aruleni or Junii—only to admit there is no better explanation than the suggestion of <a href="/facts/Ronald_Syme/HMJ3E4fU">Ronald Syme</a> that Arulenus "is either adoptive or maternal—and accorded preference to the indistinctive 'Iunius'". </p>