{"id":51951,"date":"2019-07-10T21:26:17","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T19:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/ciekawostka\/lucius-verginius-rufus-roman-role-model\/"},"modified":"2020-04-28T19:00:43","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T17:00:43","slug":"lucius-verginius-rufus-roman-role-model","status":"publish","type":"ciekawostki","link":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/lucius-verginius-rufus-roman-role-model\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucius Verginius Rufus – Roman role model"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lucius Verginius Rufus was the personification<\/a> of a faithful soldier and the old Roman virtues. In 68-69 CE, during the so-called “The Year of the Four Emperors”<\/a>, when he was the commander of the Upper Germania army<\/a>, he repeatedly rejected offered to him by the army purple. <\/p>\n

He was three times consular in 63, 69, 97 CE. When in 68 CE broke out unrest in Gaul, led by Vindex, against the unpopular in society emperor Neron<\/a>, Rufus remained loyal to the legal ruler. When Nero<\/a> collapsed, the army chose his successor Galba<\/a>. When the news reached Germania, the legions of Rufus recognized him as the emperor of his leader. However, he refused. The situation repeated itself after the death of Otho<\/a> in April 69 CE, when the army again offered power to Rufus – but he again refused.<\/p>\n

In later years, during the reign of Nerva<\/a>, he was appointed consul<\/a>. Nerva<\/a> wanted to ensure security and reassure the rebellious praetorians<\/a>, who could not come to terms with the murder of their generous patron Domitian<\/a>. Nerva hoped that Rufus’ position would calm the situation.<\/p>\n

The public burial was given to Rufus for his services to the country. His neighbor Pliny the Younger<\/a> recalls that Rufus demanded that the following inscription be engraved on his tombstone: Hic situs est Rufus, pulso qui Vindice quondam Imperium asseruit non sibi sed patriae,<\/em> which in free translation means: “Here lies Rufus, who after defeating Vindex, did not take power, but gave it to the fatherland”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":36276,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"kategorie_ciekawostek":[77],"class_list":["post-51951","ciekawostki","type-ciekawostki","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","kategorie_ciekawostek-unknown-facts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/51951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ciekawostki"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/51951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kategorie_ciekawostek","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kategorie_ciekawostek?post=51951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}