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Id	1537
Person id-code	Rufinus 002
Name	Rufinus
Gender	male
Gentilicia	AELIA
Cognomina	Rufinus
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Name comments
Free text (when person flourished)
Post quem (when person flourished)	197 AD
Ante quem (when person flourished)	296 AD
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Legal status	servus
Servile affiliation	privatus
Citizen status	servus/-a civis romanus
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Status notes and comments	Rufinus sets up a statue with inscription to P. Aelius Strenuus, and describes himself as 'Rufinus eius'. It is odd to find a slave setting up such a statue, but Strenuus was a figure of more than just local importance. He was an 'eques romanus' and held religious and political offices in Apulum, Sarmizegetusa, and Drobeta (250 kms south of Sarmizegetusa, 140 kms south of Sarmizegetusa). So Rufinus may have been an important figure in Apulum, despite his servile status. A P. Aelius Rufinus is also documented at Apulum (CIL 0---, 00975). He became a council member, so should have been a freeborn. But the similarity of names is striking. Like Strenuus he was co-opted patron of the 'collegium fabrum'. We may have to consider the possibility that the Rufinus who honoured P. Aelius Strenuus, referring to himself as 'Rufinus eius' was not a slave but a succesful local (would be) notable who wished to associate himself as close as possibly to Aelius Strenuus.