See also:

• LUCIUS

LUCIUS VARIUS See also:

• RUFUS, GAIUS VALGIUS
• LUCIUS VARIUS RUFUS (c 74—14 B.c.)

RUFUS (c 74—14 B.c.)  , See also:

• ROMAN

Roman poet of the Augustan See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age . He was the friend of See also:

• VIRGIL (PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARC)
• VIRGIL, POLYDORE (c. 1470-1555)

Virgil, after whose See also:

• DEATH

death he and Plotius Tucca prepared the Aeneid for publication, and of See also:

• HORACE [QuINTus HORATIUS FLACCUS] (65-8 B.C.)

Horace, for whom he and Virgil obtained an introduction to See also:

• MAECENAS, GAIUS (CILNIUS)

Maecenas . Horace speaks of him as a See also:

• MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English form is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)

master of epic and the only poet capable of celebrating the achievements of Vipsanius See also:

• AGRIPPA
• AGRIPPA, HEROD, I
• AGRIPPA, HEROD, II
• AGRIPPA, MARCUS VIPSANIUS

Agrippa (Odes, i . 6); Virgil (under the name of Lycidas, Ed. ix . 35) regrets that he had hitherto produced nothing comparable to the See also:

• WORK

work of Varius or Helvius See also:

• CINNA
• CINNA, GAIUS HELVIUS

Cinna . From See also:

• MACROBIUS, AMBROSIUS THEODOSIUS

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, 27—29, these three lines are taken bodily from a See also:

• PANEGYRIC

panegyric of Varius on See also:

• AUGUSTUS (a name 1 derived from Lat. augeo, increase, i.e. venerable, majestic, Gr. Ee0avr6s)

Augustus . But his most famous See also:

• LITERARY

literary See also:

• PRODUCTION (Lat. productionem, from producere, to pro-duce)

production was the tragedy Thyestes, which See also:

• QUINTILIAN [MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIANUS] (C. A.D. 35-95)

Quintilian (Inst . Oral. x . 1, 98) declares See also:

• FIT

fit to See also:

• RANK (O.Fr. rant or rent, mod. rang, generally connected with the O.E. and O.H.G. bring, a ring)

rank with any of the See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek tragedies .

The didascalia (which is preserved in a See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris MS.) informs us that it was produced at the See also:

• GAMES, CLASSICAL

games celebrated (29 B.C.) by Augustus in See also:

• HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour of the victory at See also:

• ACTIUM (mod. Punta)

Actium, and that Varius received a See also:

• PRESENT

present of a million sesterces from the See also:

• EMPEROR (Fr. empereur, from the Lat. imperator)

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; See also:

• TEUFFEL, WILHELM SIEGMUND (1820–1878)

Teuffel, Hist. of Roman Literature (Eng. trans., 1900), 223 .