Rufus, Minucius
8. Minucius Rufus, espoused the side of Pompey in the civil war, and commanded, along with Lucretius Vespillo, a squadron of eighteen ships, at Oricum, in B. C. 48 (Caes. Civ. 3.7; Appian, App. BC 2.54). He is probably the same as the Minucius who was at Tarentum in B. C. 49, and of whom Cicero speaks (ad Att. 11.14, 15, ad Q. Fr. 3.1.6). He may also be the same as the Minucius who was praetor in B. C. 43, and was one of the victims of the proscription in that year. (Appian, App. BC 4.17.)
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.