Lucius Varius Rufus
Roman poet
Lucius Varius Rufus (c. 74 – 14 BC) was a Roman poet of the early Augustan age.
Quotes
edit- 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
- May Jove, who watches with the same good-will