Flavius Rufus (''floruit'' 457 AD) was a politician of the
Eastern Roman Empire
The Byzantine Empire, also known as the Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire centred on Constantinople during late antiquity and the Middle Ages. Having survived the events that caused the fall of the Western Roman E ...
. In 457 he was appointed
consul
Consul (abbrev. ''cos.''; Latin plural ''consules'') was the title of one of the two chief magistrates of the Roman Republic, and subsequently also an important title under the Roman Empire. The title was used in other European city-states thro ...
with
Constantinus as colleague; both of them were recognised only in the East.
Nothing else is known about him.
Sources
* Jones, Arnold Hugh Martin, John Robert Martindale, John Morris, "Fl. Rufus 4", ''
Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire
''Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire'' (abbreviated as ''PLRE'') is a work of Roman prosopography published in a set of three volumes collectively describing many of the people attested to have lived in the Roman Empire from AD 260, the date ...
'', Volume 2, Cambridge University Press, 1992, , p. 959.
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5th-century Byzantine people
5th-century Roman consuls