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RUFUS, LUCIUS VARIUS (c 7414 B.c.)

This article appears in Volume V23, Page 821 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: RON-SAC
RUFUS, LUCIUS VARIUS (c 7414 B.c.) , Roman poet of the Augustan age. He was the friend of Virgil, after whose death he and Plotius Tucca prepared the Aeneid for publication, and of
Horace
 , for whom he and Virgil obtained an introduction to Maecenas.
Horace
  speaks of him as a master of epic and the only poet capable of celebrating the achievements of Vipsanius
Agrippa
  (Odes, i. 6); Virgil (under the name of Lycidas, Ed. ix. 35) regrets that he had hitherto produced nothing comparable to the
work
  of Varius or Helvius
Cinna
 . From
Macrobius
  (Saturnalia, vi. 1, 39; 2, 19) we learn that Varius composed an epic poem De Morte, some lines of which are quoted as having been imitated or appropriated by Virgil; Horace (Sat. i. 1o, 43) probably alludes to another epic, and, according to the scholiast on Epistles, i. 16, 2729, these three lines are taken bodily from a
panegyric
  of Varius on
Augustus
 . But his most famous literary production was the tragedy Thyestes, which Quintilian (Inst. Oral. x. 1, 98) declares fit to rank with any of the
Greek
  tragedies. The didascalia (which is preserved in a Paris MS.) informs us that it was produced at the
games
  celebrated (29 B.C.) by
Augustus
  in honour of the victory at
Actium
 , and that Varius received a present of a million sesterces from the emperor.
Fragments in E. Bahrens, Frag. Poetarum Romanorum (1886); monographs by A. Weichert (1836) and R. Unger (187o, 1878, 1898) ; M. Schanz, Geschichte der romischen Litteratur (1899), ii. r; Teuffel, Hist. of Roman Literature (Eng. trans., 1900), 223.


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