Rufinus

Tyrannius Rufinus (c. 345-411 AD), known as Rufinus of Aquileia, was a Christian monk, theologian, and one of the most important translators of Greek patristic literature into Latin. A boyhood friend of Jerome, with whom he later quarreled bitterly over the orthodoxy of Origen, Rufinus rendered Origen's 'On First Principles', the Clementine Recognitions, Eusebius's 'Ecclesiastical History', and works of Basil and Gregory of Nazianzus into Latin, shaping how the Western Church received Greek theology. He spent years in monastic life in Egypt and on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem before returning to Italy, settling at Aquileia and dying in Sicily as he fled the invasion of Alaric. (Note: this corpus record conflates collections from both Jerome and Pliny the Younger; a separate, earlier figure named Rufinus appears as a correspondent in Pliny's letters, but the Aquileia geodata and the Jerome collection point to Tyrannius Rufinus, the well-attested figure described here.)