(in the Campagna?), having been driven there by the arrival of Alaric in northern Italy. He fled to Sicily when Alaric moved south and pillaged Rome in 410. He was in the company of Melania the Younger in his flight. He died in Sicily in 411. Works Original works Commentarius in symbolum apostolorum: a commentary on the Apostles' Creed which gives evidence of its use and interpretation in 4th-century Italy. (Commentary on the Apostles' Creed, at New Advent) The Church History of Rufinus of Aquileia. Many of his extant works are defences of himself against attacks by Jerome. De Adulteratione Librorum Origenis – an appendix to his translation of the Apology of Pamphilus, and intended to show that many of the features in Origen's teaching which were then held to be objectionable arise from interpolations and falsifications of the genuine text De Benedictionibus XII Patriarcharum Libri II – an exposition of Gen. xlix. Apologia s. Invectivarum in Hieronymum Libri II Apologia pro Fide Sua ad Anastasium Pontificem (Apology, Sent to Anastasius, Bishop of the City of Rome, at New Advent) Historia Eremitica – consisting of the lives of thirty-three monks of the Nitrian desert The anti-Origenist Liber de fide was in the past sometimes attributed to Tyrannius Rufinus, but now it is more often assigned to Rufinus the Syrian. Translations from Greek to Latin Rufinus translated the Historia Ecclesiastica of Eusebius of Caesarea and continued the work from the reign of Constantine I to the death of Theodosius I (395). It was published in 402 or 403. Origen's commentary on the New Testament Epistle to the Romans, along with many of his sermons on the Old Testament, survive only in versions by Rufinus. The full text of Origen's De principiis (On first principals) also survives only in Rufinus' translation. Jerome, earlier a friend of Rufinus, fell out with him and wrote at least three works opposing his opinions and condemning his translations as flawed. For instance, Jerome prepared a (now lost) translation of Origen's De principiis to replace Rufinus' translation, which Jerome said was too free. The other translations of Rufinus are the Instituta Monachorum and some of the Homilies of Basil of Caesarea the Apology of Pamphilus, referred to above Origen's Principia Origen's Homilies (Gen. Lev. Num. Josh. Kings, also Cant, and Rom.) De recta in Deum fide by Pseudo-Origen (Adamantius) Opuscula of Gregory of Nazianzus the Sententiae of