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;, Satires, Epistles and Ars Poëtica (1869); see also: Norbert Guterman, A Book of Latin Quotations (1966), p. 118