Wikipedia:LuciusVerginius Rufus At the public burial with which he was honored, the historian Tacitus (then consul) delivered the funeral oration. Pliny the Younger, his neighbor and ward, has recorded the lines which Verginius had ordered to be engraved upon his tomb: Hic situs est Rufus, pulso qui Vindice quondam Imperium asseruit non sibi sed patriae ("Here lies Rufus, who after defeating Vindex, did not take power, but gave it to the fatherland").
17 posted on 05/26/2011 10:21:18 AM PDT by lbryce
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Lucius Verginius Rufus was a man of outstanding character who repeatedly refused the imperial crown. There is a link at the Wikipedia site to a longer article on Livius.org by Jona Lendering (who is Dutch but the article is in English).