Lucius Varius Rufus (c 74 - 14 BC), Roman poet of the Augustan age. Centuries: 2nd century BC - 1st century BC - 1st century Decades: 120s BC 110s BC 100s BC 90s BC 80s BC - 70s BC - 60s BC 50s BC 40s BC 30s BC 20s BC Years: 79 BC 78 BC 77 BC 76 BC 75 BC - 74 BC - 73 BC 72 BC 71... Centuries: 2nd century BC - 1st century BC - 1st century Decades: 60s BC 50s BC 40s BC 30s BC 20s BC - 10s BC - 0s 10s 20s 30s 40s Years: 19 BC 18 BC 17 BC 16 BC 15 BC 14 BC 13 BC 12 BC 11 BC 10 BC 9 BC... Augustus (plural Augusti) is Latin for majestic or venerable. The greek equivalent is sebastos, or a mere grecization (by changing of the ending) augustos. ...

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. For other uses see Virgil (disambiguation). ... The Aeneid is a Latin epic written by Virgil in the 1st century BC that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who traveled to Italy where he became the ancestor of the Romans. ... Quintus Horatius Flaccus, (December 8, 65 BC - November 27, 8 BC), known in the English world as Horace, was the leading lyric poet in Latin. ... Gaius or Cilnius Maecenas (70 - 8 BC) was a confidant and political advisor to Augustus Caesar, as well as an important sponsor of young poets. ... Marcus Agrippa Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa (63 BC-12 BC) was a Roman statesman and general. ...

From Macrobius (Saturnalia, vi. I, 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. 10, 43) probably alludes to another epic, and, according to the scholiast on Epistles, j. 16, 2 729, these three lines are taken bodily from a panegyric of Varius on Augustus. Ambrosius Theodosius Macrobius, Roman grammarian and philosopher, flourished during the reigns of Honorius and Arcadius (395-423). ... A Panegyric is a formal public speech delivered in high praise of a person or thing, a generally high studied and undiscriminating eulogy. ...

But his most famous literary production was the tragedy Thyestes, which Quintilian (Inst. Orat. x. 1, 98) declares fit to rank with any of the Greek tragedies. The didascalia (which is preserved in a Paris manuscript) informs us that it was produced at the games celebrated (29 BC) by Augustus in honour of the victory at Actium, and that Varius received a present of a million sesterces from the emperor. Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (c. ... Centuries: 2nd century BC - 1st century BC - 1st century Decades: 70s BC 60s BC 50s BC 40s BC 30s BC - 20s BC - 10s BC 0s 10s 20s 30s Years: 34 BC 33 BC 32 BC 31 BC 30 BC 29 BC 28 BC 27 BC 26 BC 25 BC 24... The Battle of Actium, 2 September 31 BC, by Lorenzo A. Castro, painted 1672. ... The sestertius was an ancient Roman coin. ...

Fragments in E Bahrens, Frag. Poetarum Romanorum (1886); monographs by A Weichert (1836) and R Unger (1870, 1878, 1898); M Schanz, Geschichte der römischen Litteratur (1899), ii. 1; Teuffel, Hist. of Roman Literature (Eng. trans., 1900), 223. Wilhelm Siegmund Teuffel (September 27, 1820 - March 8, 1878), German classical scholar, was born at Ludwigsburg in the kingdom of Württemberg. ...

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