Publius Rutilius Rufus (c. 160 BC – after 78 BC) was a Roman politician, soldier, orator, and historian. He was consul in 105 BC, with Gnaeus Mallius Maximus as his colleague. A military man, he had served in more junior roles in wars against Numantia, Jugurtha, and the Cimbri.
After his consulship, while serving as a legate of Quintus Mucius Scaevola in provincial Asia, he attempted to safeguard the population from extortion by influential equites. Prosecuted at Rome c. 94 BC for extorting those same provincials, according to the Ciceronean tradition he was unjustly condemned. He then left for exile in Asia, settling at Mytilene and Smyrna, living among those he had supposedly extorted. The author of a history of Rome in Greek, he survived the upheavals of the Mithridatic Wars and was still alive in the early 70s BC when Cicero visited him there.
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