Caeionius Rufius Albinus

Ceionius Rufius Albinus (* 14-15. March 303) was a high-ranking Roman official of late antiquity.

Albinus came from a highly respected family, his father Gaius Ceionius Rufius Volusianus and his grandfather Nummius Albinus were 311 and 263 consuls. His mother was Nummia Albina. Ceionius Rufius Albinus rose under Emperor Constantine attributed to high dignitaries. 335 he held jointly with Julius Constantius, half brother of the emperor, as the second consul ( consul posterior) the consulate. December 30, 335 until March 9, 337, he was also prefect of Rome. To a 337 Quadriga was erected in Rome for him, perhaps as a reward for that he had obtained some extension of powers for the Senate. Over his career is nothing else known.

An inscription from Rome, to the which also gives an overview of Albinus ' career and his full name, calls him " philosophus " philosopher. Therefore, he is perhaps the Albinus, whose names now lost books on dialectic and geometry of the later philosopher Boethius. It could also be the author of a history of Rome in verse have been, which is mentioned by Priscian.

The senator and astrologer Julius Maternus Firmicus handed in his Mathesis the horoscope of an unnamed city prefect, the modern research with Ceionius Rufius Albinus has identified. Because of this horoscope Albinus ' birth 303 may be determined by the 14th ( or 15th ) of March.