Obsidius
2. Discovered in Aethiopia the stone which was named after him Obsidianus (Plin. Nat. 36.26.67). The name Obsidius Rufus occurs in inscriptions, but is not mentioned elsewhere.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.