Rufus, Minu'cius
2. Q.
Minucius Rufus, C. F. C. N., plebeian aedile B. C. 201, and praetor B. C. 200, obtained in the latter year Bruttii as his province. Here he carried on an investigation respecting the robbery of the temple of Proserpine at Locri, and likewise discovered a conspiracy that had been formed in that part of Italy; and as he had not completed his inquiries at the end of the year, his imperium was prolonged for another year. In B. C. 197 he was consul with C. Cornelius Cethegus, and carried on war against the Boii with success; but as the senate refused him the honour of a triumph, he celebrated one on the Alban Mount. In B. C. 189 he was one of the ten commissioners sent into Asia after the conquest of Antiochus the Great; and his name occurs in the Senatusconsultum de Bacchanalibus (B. C. 186), as one of the senators present at the time it was written out. In B. C. 183 he was one of the three ambassadors sent into Gaul, and this is the last time that his name is mentioned. (
Liv. 31.4,
6,
12,
13,
32.1,
27-
31,
33.22,
23;
Zonar. 9.16;
Cic. Brut. 18 ;
Liv. 37.55,
39.54.)
