Cicero's Letters, he must have been a man who loved wit, as well as learning; he belonged, no doubt, to the intimate society in which Horace passed his life; and though now of advanced age, would be flattered rather than displeased at the quiet comic humour with which Horace impersonates the great Lawyer, as regularly consulted on the important questions of taste and poetry, and giving his opinion with legal precision and sententious gravity. His advice to the Poet how to make his fortune, " multa laborum præmia laturus," might almost seem like a sly allusion to the manner in which Trebatius first made his own in Gaul. At all events the prudence of the old lawyer is admirably sustained. There is another curious slight coincidence. Trebatius advises Horace to try swimming in the Tiber for his diversion. Cicero jokes with Trebatius upon his love of swimming-" Studiosissimus homo natandi" (Ad Fam. vii. 10).

TREBONIUS.-Sat. 1. iv. 114. A man of intrigue.

TURBO.-Sat. II. iii. 310. A gladiator of small stature but great courage.

TURIUS, C. MARCUS.-Sat. II. i. 49. A corrupt judge.
TYNDARIS.-Carm. I. xvi. 1.

UMBRENUS.-Sat. II. ii. 133.

Perhaps an imaginary

name, or that of a man to whom had been awarded the

confiscated estate of Ofella.

UMMIDIUS.-Sat. 1. i. 95. A person unknown, but from this passage. The name is not uncommon.

VALA NUMONIUS.-See "Numonius."

VALGIUS.-See "Poets."

VARIUS.-See "Poets."

VARRO ATACINUS.-See "Poets."

VARUS.-Carm. I. xvii. The Scholiasts add to this name

that of Quintilius. He was probably the Quintilius Varus, the friend of Virgil and of Horace, whose death, u. c. 730, Horace laments in his twenty-fourth Ode. He is, no doubt, the same Quintilius to whom Horace alludes (A. P. 438) as a consummate critic; and with this the passages of Virgil seem to agree; as well as with the fond attachment to his memory, expressed in the mournful Ode on his death:

"te nostræ, Vare, myricæ,

Te nemus omne canet: nec Phoebo gratior ulla est,

Quam sibi quæ Vari præscripsit pagina nomen."-Ecl. v. 10. Compare vi. 6, 7; ix. 27, 35. Of the other Vari of this period none agrees so well with the language of the two Poets, and the authority of the Scholiast may perhaps be admitted, who joins the names of Quintilius and Varus. The other Vari are, 1. Quintilius Varus, Consul, u. c. 760, whose disastrous fate in Germany (u. c. 763) gave a sad celebrity to the name. 2. P. Alfenius Varus, a distinguished jurisconsult, Consul (Suffectus), u. c. 715. 3. His son, Consul (Suffect.), u. c. 755. 4. Q. Atius Varus, Commander of the Horse under Cn. Domitius Calvinus. Cæs. B. Civ. iii. 37, and Hirtius B. Gall. viii. 28. This was probably the Varus who presided over the division of the confiscated estates in Cisalpine Gaul, and the Q. Varus sent by Augustus to put to death Cassius Parmensis at Athens. 5. L. Varus, an Epicurean, a friend of Cæsar. Quintil. I. O. vi. 378. 6. Pompeius Varus, the old fellowsoldier of Horace, whose return to Italy he celebrates, Carm. II. vii. Varus, it appears, with less prudence than Horace, plunged again into the civil wars. The time of his return to Rome is uncertain, as is the date of the Ode.

VARUS.-Epod. v. 73. The faithless lover of Canidia

-Quintilius Varus? I should doubt their identity. Compare rather a perplexed Dissertation of Weichert, De diversis, qui Cæs. August. ætate vixerunt, Varis. p. 121. A gladiator, who, having

VEIANIUS.-Epist. 1. i. 4.

fought many battles, obtained

leave to retire from the

arena, and consecrated his arms to Hercules.

VIBIDIUS.—Sat. 11. viii. 22, et seqq. The second umbra of Mæcenas at the feast of Nasidienus.

VILLIUS, SEXT.-Sat. 1. ii. 64. An intimate associate of Milo, with whose wife, Fausta, the daughter of Sylla, his intrigue was so notorious, that he was called his son in-law. Cic. ad Fam. xi. 6.

VINNIUS (ASELLA, OR ASINA).—Epist. 1. xiii. Horace confided to his care a volume of his works, which, on a favourable opportunity, was to be presented to Augustus, then perhaps in Spain.

VIRGILIUS.-See "Poets."

VISCUS, VIBIUS.-See "Poets."

VISCUS, THURINUS.-Sat. II. viii. 20. A guest of

Nasidienus.

VISELLIUS.-Sat. 1. i. 105.

Visellii socer; herniosus.

VOLANERIUS.-Sat. II. vii. 15. A buffoon, unknown.

VOLTEIUS, MENA.-Epist. I. vii. 55.

nary.

Probably imagi

VOLUMNIUS, EUTRAPELUS.-See "Eutrapelus." VORANUS.-Sat. 1. viii. 35. A thief: a story is told of his thievery in the Comm. Cruq.

XANTHIAS, PHOCEUS.-C. II. iv. A youth unknown, if not imaginary, or the Poem may be a translation from the Greek.

as an Orator, in an accusation against C. Cato. In the civil war he took the side of Cæsar, and crossed the Rubicon with him. He served under Cicero in the reduction of Sicily and Africa, was present at Pharsalia, and was with Cæsar a second time in Africa. He was one of the fourteen Proprætors, and took the command in the further Spain. He was there defeated by Sex. Pompeius, and supposed to be slain; but peace was made with S. Pompeius by the intervention of Lepidus. From Spain Pollio wrote three letters to Cicero (Ad Fam. x. 31, 2, 3), in which he described himself as more inclined to peaceful pursuits than to war, as abhorring the dominion of one, and as ready to obey the Senate; but that he was unable to move, because Lepidus lay, with his forces, between him and the Alps. He afterwards joined Antonius and Octavius, and was Consul, u. c. 714; he was the Lieutenant of Antonius in Cisalpine Gaul, and there took Virgil under his protection. He was one of the Mediators in the treaty of Brundusium. He afterwards commanded in Illyria, where he defeated the Parthini, a Dalmatian people, over whom he obtained a triumph (Oct. 25, u.c. 715). He refused to accompany Octavius to Actium, and passed the rest of his life in literary ease and quiet. He died at his villa in Tusculum, u. c. 749.

Pollio was distinguished as an Orator, a Poet, and a Historian. Though highly praised by his contemporaries, the fame of his Tragedies does not appear to have been lasting. He is not named by Quintilian. Of his poetry not a line survives: he lives in his Epistles, contained among those of Cicero, and in the grateful praises of Virgil and of Horace. Weichert insists that the Tragedies of Asinius Pollio were not performed in public; that a man of his rank would not have submitted to the tumultuous