Lucius Varius Rufus

Lucius Varius Rufus (c. 74 – 14 BC) was a Roman poet of the early Augustan age.

Quotes

• Tene magis salvum populus velit an populum tu?
  servet in ambiguo, qui consulit et tibi et Urbi, Iuppiter.
  • May Jove, who watches with the same good-will
    O'er you and Rome, preserve the secret still,
    Whether the heart within you beats more true
    To Rome and to her sons, or theirs to you!
  • From Panegyricus Augusti, quoted by Horace, Epistles, I, xvi, 27; John Conington, Satires, Epistles and Ars Poëtica (1869); see also: Norbert Guterman, A Book of Latin Quotations (1966), p. 118