Rufus
2. A friend of Pliny the younger, who addresses two letters to him (Ep. 5.21, 7.25). His gentile name is not mentioned by Pliny. There were four other correspondents of Pliny who bear the cognomen of Rufus; namely, Calvisius, Caninius, Octavius, and Sempronius, all of whom are mentioned below in alphabetical order.
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.