Rufus
4. A Greek writer, the author of a work on Music, in three books, in which he treated of the origin of tragedy and comedy. Sopater availed himself to a considerable extent of this work of Rufus. (Phot. Bibl. 161; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. ii. p. 320.)
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