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Rufus

2. A gem-engraver, whose name occurs on one stone in the form ΡΟΥΦΟΞ (Raspe, No. 9823), and on a very beautiful cameo, in the Orleans cabinet, representing Aurora with the horses of the Sun, in the form ΡΟΥΦΟΞ ΕΠΟΙΕΙ. (Pierres gruvées d'Orleans, vol. i. pl. 45, pp. 19.5, 196; R. Rochette, Lettre à M. Schorn, pp. 152, 153, 2d ed.)

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.