"Tene magis salvum populus velit an populum tu? servet in ambiguo, qui consulit et tibi et Urbi, Iuppiter."
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From Panegyricus Augusti, quoted by Horace, Epistles, I, xvi, 27; , Satires, Epistles and Ars Poëtica (1869); see also: Norbert Guterman, A Book of Latin Quotations (1966), p. 118
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Lucius Varius Rufus
Lucius Varius Rufus (c. 74 – 14 BC) was a Roman poet of the early Augustan age.
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