Quintus Minucius Rufus [SEP] position held
Quintus Minucius Rufus
Quintus Minucius Rufus was a consul of the Roman Republic in 197 BC.
Early career.
In 211 BC, Minucius was an officer serving under Q. Fulvius Flaccus when Roman forces took back Capua after their defeat the previous year by Hannibal. He was a plebeian aedile in 201.
Praetorship in Locri.
As praetor in 200, Minucius was assigned to Bruttium (modern-day Calabria), where he investigated thefts from the temple of Proserpina at Locri. His "imperium" was prorogued
siege of Capua in 210 BC, should probably be identified with Quintus Minucius Rufus, the consul of 197.
- Quintus Minucius C. f. C. n. Rufus, as praetor in 200 BC, he discovered a conspiracy in Bruttium. He was consul in 197, and successfully carried on the war against the Boii, but was refused a triumph by the senate, and so celebrated one on the Alban Mount. In 183 he was one of the ambassadors sent to the Gauls.
- Marcus Minucius Rufus, praetor "peregrinus