RUTIL1A.
 

SMLBi.
 

Rimcigne.   Their chief town was  Segodunum..

afterward CivitasRutenorum (now Rodez).  The

country of the Ruteni contained silver mines,

and produced excellent flax.

  [Rutilia, the mother of C. Cotta, the orator,

accompanied her son into exile in B C. 91, and

remained with him abroad till his return some

years afterward.]

  Rutilius Lupus.   Vid. Lupus.

  Rutilius Numatianhs, Claudius, a Roman

poet, and a native of Gaul, lived at the begin¬

ning of the fifth  century of the Christian era.

He resided at Rome a considerable time, where

he attained the dignity of praefectus urbi about

A.D. 413 or 414.  He afterward returned to his

native country, and has  described his return to

Gaul in an elegiac poem, which bears the title

of Itinerarium, or De Reditu.  Of this poem the

first book, consisting of six hundred and forty-

four lines, and a small portion of the second,

have come down to us.   It is superior both in

poetical coloring and purity of language to most

of the productions of the age ; and the passage

in which he celebrates the praises of Rome is

not unworthy of the pen of Claudian.   Rutilius

was a heathen, and attacks the Jews and monks

with no small severity.  The best edition is by

A. W. Zumpt,  Berlin, 1840.

  Rutilius Rufus, P., a  Roman statesman and

orator.  He was military tribune under Scipio

in the Numantine war, praetor B.C. Ill, consul

105, and legatus in 95 under Q. Mucius Scae-

vola, proconsul of Asia.  While  acting in this

capacity, he displayed so much honesty  and

firmness in repressing the extortions ofthe pub-

licani, that he became  an  object of fear  and

hatred to the whole body.  Accordingly, on his

seturn to Rome, he was impeached of malversa¬

tion (de repetundis), found guilty, and compelled

to withdiaw into banishment,  92.  He retired

first to Mytilene, and  from thence to  Smyrna,

where he fixed his  abode,  and passed the re¬

mainder of his days in tranquillity, having re¬

fused to return to Rome, although recalled by

Sulla.   Besides his orations, Rutilius wrote an

autobiography, and a History of Rome in Greek,

which contained an account of the Numantine

war, but we know not what period it embraced.

  Rutilus, C. Marcius, was consul B.C.  357,

when he took the town  of Privernum  In 358

he  was appointed dictator, being the first time

that a plebeian had attained this dignity.  In

his dictatorship he defeated the Etruscans with

great slaughter.  In 352 he was consul a sec¬

ond time ; and in 351 he was the first plebeian

censor.  He  was consul for the third time in

344, for the fourth time in 342.  The son of this

Rutilus took the surname of Censorinus, which

in the next generation entirely supplanted that

of Rutilus, and became the name ofthe family.

 Vid. Censorinus.

  Rutuba (now Roya), a river on the coast of

 Liguria, which flows into the sea near Albium

Intemelium.

  Rutuli, an  ancient people in Italy,  inhabit¬

ing a  narrow slip of country on the coast of

 Latium, a little to the south of the Tiber. Their

 chief town was Ardea, which was the residence

 of 1 urnus.  They were subdued at an early pe¬

 riod by the Romans, and disappear from history.

   Rhtvp<s or RfiTuFLa: (now Richborongh), a
 

port-town of theCai.tii in the south eaSJ ~JHnt

ain, from which persons frequently passed ovei

to the harbor of Gessoriacum in Gaul  Excel¬

lent oysters were obtained in the neighborhood;

of this place (Rutupino edita fundo ostrea, Juv.,

iv.,  141).  There are still several Roman  re¬

mains at Richborongh.





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  Saba (Sd6a). 1. (In the Old Testament, Sheba),

the  capital of the Sab^bi  in Arabia Felix, lay on

a high woody mountain, and was pointed out by

an Arabian tradition as the residence  of  the

" Queen of Sheba," who went to Jerusalem to

hear the wisdom of Solomon.  Its exact site is

doubtful. — 2. There was another  city of the

same name in the interior of Arabia Felix, where

a place Sabea is still found, about in  the centre

of El-Yemen —3 A sea-port town of ^Ethiopia,

on the Red Sea, south of Ptolema'is Theron.   A

town called 'SaBdr and ~ZdBBara is mentioned by

Ptolemy, who places it on the Sinus Adulitanus,

and about in the same position Strabo mentions

a town Saba  (HdBai) as distinct from  Saba

The sites of these  places (if they are really dif¬

ferent) are sought  by geographers at Nowarat,

or Port Mornington, in the southern  part of the

coast of Nubia, and Massawah on Foul Bay, on

the  northeastern coast of Abyssinia.

  Sabacon (ZaBaK&v), a king Qf ^Ethiopia, who

invaded Egypt  in  the reign of the  blind king

Anysis, whom he dethroned and drove into the

marshes.  The ^Ethiopian conqueror then reign¬

ed over Egypt for fifty years, but at length quit¬

ted the  country in consequence of a dream,

whereupon Anysis regained his kingdom.  This

is the account which Herodotus received from

the priests (ii, 137-140); but it appears from

Manetho that there were three ^Ethiopian kings

who reigned over Egypt, named  Sabacon, Se-

bichus, and  Taracus, whose collective reigns

amount  to forty or fifty years, and who form

the  twenty fifth dynasty of that writer.  The

account  of Manetho is to be preferred tc that

of Herodotus   It  appears that  this ^Ethiopian

dynasty  reigned over Egypt in  the  latter half

of the eighth century before the Christian  era.

They  are mentioned  in the Jewish  records.

The So, king of Egypt,  with whom Hosea, king

of Israel, made  an alliance about B C. 722 (2

Kings, xvii, 4), was probably the same as Sebi-

chus; and the Thhakah, king of the Ethiopi¬

ans, who was preparing to make war against

Sennacherib in 711 (Is.,  xxxvii, 9), is the same

as Taracus.

  Sab.351 or Sab^: (SaBaiot, Sdfoe:  in tho Old

Testament, Shebaiim),  one  of the chief people

of Arabia, dwelt in the southwestern corner of

the peninsula, in the most beautiful part of Ara¬

bia Felix, the north and centre of the province

of El- Yemen. So, at least, Ptolemy places them;

but the earlier geographers give them a wider

extent, quite to the south of El-Yemen.   The

fact seems to be that they are the chief repre¬

sentatives of a race which, at an early period,

was widely spread on both sides of the  south

ern part of the Red Sea, where  Arabia  and

^Ethiopia all but joined  at the narrow strait of

Bab-el-Mandeb;  and hence, probablj, the  con¬

fusion often made between the Sheba and Sebt

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