Vargunteius
A senator, and one of Catiline's conspirators, who undertook, in conjunction with C. Cornelius, to murder Cicero in B. c. 63, but their plan was frustrated by information conveyed to Cicero through Fulvia.
Varius Rufus, L. One of the most distinguished poets of the Augustan age, the companion and friend of Vergil and Horace. By the latter he is placed in the foremost rank among the epic bards, and Quintilian has pronounced that his tragedy of Thyestes might stand a comparison with any production of the Grecian stage.