Quintus Pompeius#Consul of 88 BC

Quintus Pompeius Rufus († 88 BC) was a politician of the late Roman Republic.

Pompeius Rufus was the son or grandson of Quintus Pompeius, who was 141 BC as the first of his family arrives at the consulate. As tribune of 100, or 99 BC Rufus tried in vain Quintus Caecilius Metellus Numidicus recall from exile. 91 BC he was praetor urbanus. Together with Lucius Cornelius Sulla, the father of his son of the same name, Rufus became consul 88 BC. Rufus took action against the tribune Publius Sulpicius Rufus, who wanted to spread the Italian new citizens to all tribes and Gaius Marius transmit the command against Mithridates. The followers of Sulpicius, killing the younger Pompeius Rufus. After Sulla's march on Rome Pompey Rufus supported him in his measures against its political opponents (including Marius ) and received the previous command of the proconsul Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo transferred. Meanwhile, soldiers killed (perhaps at the instigation of Strabo ) Pompeius Rufus still in his or her year as consul.

Rufus ' portrait has survived on coins minted BC Quintus Pompeius Rufus, his grandson in the 50s of the 1st century.