Rufus, Minu'cius
4a. M. MINUCIUS RUFUS, Q. F., tribune of the plebs, B. C. 121, brought forward a bill to repeal the laws of C. Gracchus.
This bill was opposed by C. Gracchus, in a speech which was extant in later times, and is quoted by Festus, under the title of
De Lege Minucia (
Flor. 3.15; Aurel. Vict.
de Vir. Ill. 65; Festus,
s. v. Osi sunt, p. 201, ed. Müller; Meyer,
Fragm. Orat. Rom. p. 244, 2nd ed.). This Marcus Rufus and his brother Quintus are mentioned as arbiters between the inhabitants of Genua and the Viturii, in a very interesting inscription, which was discovered in the year 1506, about ten miles from the modern city of Genoa.
This inscription has been frequently printed.
It is given by Orelli (
Inscr. No. 3121), and has been also published by Rudorff, with important elucidations, under the title of "Q. et M. Minuciorum Sententia inter Genuates et Viturios dicta, ed. et illustr. A. A. F. Rudorff," Berol. 1842, 4to.
