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Updated: June 11, 2025
The main interest which Varius has for us arises from his having, in company with Plotius Tucca, edited the Aeneid after Virgil's death.
The actor he addresses belongs to one of them. Tucca mentions two theatres by name 'your Globes, and your Triumphs. He says to the actor: 'Commend me to seven shares and a half. Shakespere and his colleagues had certain fixed shares in the 'Globe; and the words of the actor, as regards the poor winter they had, confirm that which Shakspere gives to understand in Hamlet, that 'there was, for a while, no money bid for argument, unless the poet and the player went to cuffs in the question.
Vergil's companions in the Cecropius hortulus, destined to be his life-long friends, were, according to Probus, Quintilius Varus, the famous critic, Varius Rufus, the writer of epics and tragedies, and Plotius Tucca. Of his early friendship with Varius he has left a remembrance in Catalepton I and VII, with Varus in Eclogue VI. Horace combined all these names more than once in his verses.
'Alas, Sir, Horace! he is a mere sponge; nothing but humours and observation; he goes up and down, sucking from every society, and when he comes home, squeezes himself dry again. Tucca adds: 'He will sooner lose his best friend than his least jest. Crispinus is found guilty of having composed a libel against Horace, of which the following may serve as a specimen:
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