Quintus Tineius Rufus (consul 182)

Quintus Tineius Rufus was a Roman senator and military officer who lived during the 2nd century AD. He is best known for his consulship in 182 AD.

Little is definitively known about his early life and career. It's likely he followed the typical cursus honorum expected of Roman senators. Information is scarce, but his consulship itself indicates he held significant prior magistracies, such as praetorship, and likely quaestorship and aedileship or tribuneship.

Rufus served as consul ordinarius in 182 AD, alongside Marcus Petronius Sura Septimianus. The consules ordinarii were the two senior consuls who began the consular year and gave their names to that year. Their role was largely ceremonial by this period of the Roman Empire, but still represented a high point in a senatorial career.

After his consulship, Tineius Rufus likely continued to serve the state in some capacity, although specific details are currently unavailable. Further research is needed to fully reconstruct his career and influence.

The Tineii were a significant Roman family, and it is probable that he was related to other prominent Tineii who held high office during the Roman Empire. Further prosopographical research may illuminate these connections.