Rufus, Numisius
a Roman legate, assisted Mummius Lupercus in the defence of Vetera Castra against Civilis, A. D. 69-70 [LUPERCUS], but before that camp was taken he had left it, and joined Vocula at Novesium, where he was made prisoner by Classicus and Tutor [CLASSICUS; VOCULA], and taken to Treviri, where he was afterwards put to death by Valentinus and Tutor [VALENTINUS]. (Tac. Hist. 4.22, 55, 70, 77.)
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.