The Anticlaudianus, a treatise on morals as allegory, the form of which recalls the pamphlet of Claudian against Rufinus, is agreeably versified and relatively pure in its latinity.

Stilicho is alleged by some to have wanted control of both Emperors, and is supposed to have had Rufinus assassinated by Gothic mercenaries in 395 ; though definite proof of Stilicho's involvement in the assassination is lacking, the intense competition and political jealousies engendered by the two figures compose the main thread of the first part of Arcadius ' reign.

* 395 – Rufinus, praetorian prefect of the East, is murdered by Gothic mercenaries under Gainas.

Because the writings of Sabellius were destroyed it is hard to know if he did actually believe in Patripassianism but one early version of the Apostles ' Creed, recorded by Rufinus, explicitly states that the Father is ' impassible.

* November 27 – Rufinus, praetorian prefect of the East, is murdered by Gothic mercenaries under Gainas.

* The Cathedral of San Rufino ( St. Rufinus ), with a Romanesque façade with three rose windows and a 16th ‑ century interior ; part of it is built on a Roman cistern.

He returned to Palestine around 333, when he was still a young man, and he founded a monastery at Ad nearby which is often mentioned in the polemics of Jerome with Rufinus and John, Bishop of Jerusalem.

This romance has come down to us in two forms: one form is called the Clementine Homilies, which consists of 20 books and exists in the original Greek ; the other is called the Clementine Recognitions, for which the original Greek has been lost, but exists in a translation made by Tyrannius Rufinus ( died 410 ).

But it is remarkable that he retained one integral part of Hs theory, viz., the origin of the Evil One from an accidental mixture of elements, for Rufinus tells us ( De Adult.

Rufinus is frequently used.

Instructive in this respect is a comparison of Sozomen, Socrates, and Rufinus on the childhood of Athanasius.

Contrasting with this, the Roman Catholic tradition says Nino was brought to Iberia not fully from her own intent, but as a slave, and that her family tree is obscure. Rufinus 1997

... Rufinus is the fragment of the name of a governor of Britannia Superior, a province of Roman Britain probably some time during the early third century AD.

He may have been the same man as Aulus Triarius Rufinus who held the consulship in 210 although Quintus Aradius Rufinus who was consul ten or fifteen years later is another possibility.

He had access to two works of Eusebius: the Historia Ecclesiastica, and also the Chronicon, though he had neither in the original Greek ; instead he had a Latin translation of the Historia, by Rufinus, and Saint Jerome's translation of the Chronicon.

Rufinus borrows from his Latin original of Hadrian's letter.

The commentaries of Tyrannius Rufinus visibly struggled with his task of translating Origen ’ s works into Latin and the new Roman dogma and made extensive changes to the original text.

His commentary — apart from a few fragments of the original Greek — survives in a Latin translation due to Tyrannius Rufinus.

As the Eunomian passage was found by Rufinus in both the recensions of Clement known to him, we may suppose that the interpolation was made in the original work by a Eunomian about 365 – 70, before the abridgment R was made about 370 – 80.

Only Eusebius ' History, in a Latin translation by Rufinus competed with it as the official version of church history in the West, until original sources began to be rediscovered, edited and printed by humanist scholars in the 15th century.

It is unlikely that Clement I was the author of the extant Recognitiones ; these are extant chiefly in a Latin translation, presumably out of the original Greek, made by Tyrannius Rufinus in the late fourth or early fifth century.

The original Greek text of his main theological work De Principiis only survives in fragments, while a 5th century Latin translation was cleared of controversial teachings by the translator Rufinus, making it hard for modern scholars to rebuild Origen's original thoughts.

Rufinus ' death and Stilicho's departure gave free rein to Alaric's movements ; he ravaged Attica but spared Athens, which capitulated at once to the conqueror.

We possess only a Latin translation of the first book, made by Rufinus ;

According to Valesius these were mainly Socrates and Sozomen ; Albert Guldenpenning's thorough research placed Rufinus first, and next to him, Eusebius of Caesarea, Athanasius, Sozomen, Sabinus, Philostorgius, Gregory Nazianzen, and, least of all, Socrates.

The same year he published Rufinus, a historical essay ; and a political poem on Duke of Marlborough and his adherents.

Citations of Pseudo-Clement are by the Palestinian Epiphanius, who found the romance among the Ebionites of Palestine ; by St. Jerome, who had dwelt in the Syrian desert and settled at Bethlehem ; by the travelled Rufinus ; by the Apostolical Constitutions, compiled in Syria or Palestine.

* Historia Miraculorum, by Rufinus ;

Tyrannius Rufinus or Rufinus of Aquileia ( Rufinus Aquileiensis ; 340 / 345 – 410 ) was a monk, historian, and theologian.

In Egypt, if not even before leaving Italy, he had become intimately acquainted with Melania the Elder, a wealthy and devout Roman widow ; and when she removed to Palestine, taking with her a number of clergy and monks on whom the persecutions of the Arian Valens had borne heavily, Rufinus ( about 378 ) followed her.

In 394, in consequence of the attack upon the doctrines of Origen made by Epiphanius of Salamis during a visit to Jerusalem, a fierce quarrel broke out, which found Rufinus and Jerome on different sides ; and, though three years afterwards a formal reconciliation was brought about between Jerome and John, the breach between Jerome and Rufinus remained unhealed.

At the instigation of Theophilus of Alexandria, Pope Anastasius I summoned Rufinus from Aquileia to Rome to vindicate his orthodoxy ; but he excused himself from a personal attendance in a written Apologia pro fide sua.

The other cognomina of the gens are personal surnames, rather than family-names ; these include Archias, Caecina, Damasippus, Imbrex, Lartius, Lenticula, Nepos, Proculus, Regulus, Rufinus, Squillus, and Tegula.

* Licinius Rufinus, a jurist in the time of Alexander Severus ; he compiled twelve books of Regulae.

During a meeting of the council, Rufinus insulted Promotus, who slapped him ; Rufinus went to Theodosius to report the affront, and Theodosius replied that if nothing changed he would have appointed Rufinus co-emperor.

Tyrannius Rufinus, a noted church historian, also recorded a personal account as do other church historians such as Socrates and Sozemius.

However, the nearest historical source available regarding the death of Valentinian II, Rufinus of Aquileia, states in his ecclesiastical history that nobody was really sure what exactly happened to Valentinian II Because this is the case, any opinions about the event are most likely to have been fabricated by those telling the story, with new evidence seemingly unattainable.

As emperors, Honorius was under the control of the Romanized Vandal magister militum Flavius Stilicho while Arcadius was dominated by one of his ministers, Rufinus.

Neither proved to be effective emperors, and Stilicho came to be the de facto commander-in-chief of the Roman armies in the West while his rival Rufinus became the power behind the throne in the East.

Rufinus, whom Bacurius visited several times on the Mount of Olives and served him as a source of Iberia ’ s conversion to Christianity, describes the general as a pious Christian, while the rhetorician Libanius, with whom Bacurius held correspondence, evidently regards him as a pagan and praises him both as a soldier and a man of culture.

In 391, Theophilus ( according to Rufinus and Sozomen ) discovered a hidden pagan temple.

Whichever the cause, the destruction of the Serapeum, described by Christian writers Tyrannius Rufinus and Sozomen, was but the most spectacular of such conflicts, according to Peter Brown.