A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Rufina, Claudia

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RUFINA, CLAUDIA,

A noble British lady, who lived about the year 100, wife of Aulus Rufus Pudens, a Bononian philosopher, and one of the Roman equestrian order. She is said to have been an intimate associate of the poet Martial, who, in many places, highly extols her for beauty, learning, and virtue. Of her poetic writings, Balseus mentions a book of Epigrams, an "Elegy on her Husband's Death," and other poems besides which she wrote many things in prose.