3. M.MinuciusRufus, praetor B. C. 197, obtained the peregrina jurisdictio. At the end of B. C. 194 he was one of the three commissioners appointed, with an imperium for three years, for the purpose of founding a Latin colony at Vibo, among the Bruttii. This colony was not founded till B. C. 192; and in the previous year, B. C. 193, Rufus was one of the ambassadors sent to Carthage. ( Liv. 32.27, 28, 34.53, 35.40, 34.62.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology
Smith, William
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. William Smith, LLD, ed. 1890