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

• 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!
  • FromPanegyricus Augusti, quoted byHorace,Epistles, I, xvi, 27;John Conington,Satires, Epistles and Ars Poëtica (1869); see also: Norbert Guterman,A Book of Latin Quotations (1966), p. 118

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