Lucius Passienus Rufus

Lucius Passienus Rufus was a Roman senator and a novus homo of some oratorical talent. He was consul in 4 BC as the colleague of Gaius Calvisius Sabinus.[1]

He inherited the name, the wealth, and the influence of his uncle Sallust. Rufus is also the grandfather of Gaius Sallustius Passienus Crispus, who was adopted by Sallustius and who married Augustus' great-granddaughter Agrippina the Younger.[2]

The sortition awarded Passienus Rufus the proconsular governorship of Africa (circa 4/3 BC). While governor he led a successful campaign in the frontier zone, for which he earned the ornamenta.[3]

References
  1. Alison E. Cooley, The Cambridge Manual of Latin Epigraphy (Cambridge: University Press, 2012), p. 458
  2. Ronald Syme, The Augustan Aristocracy (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986), pp. 159f
  3. Syme, Augustan Aristocracy, p. 319
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