Velleius Paterculus, after enumerating the distinguished literary characters who lived in the last years of the republic, in passing on to those who approached more nearly to his own age, uses the words "interque (sc. ingenia) proximi nostri aevi eminent princeps carminum Virgilius, Rabiriusque," where some critics have unjustifiably sought to substitute "Variusque" or "Horatiusque" for "Rabiriusque." Ovid also pays a tribute to the genius of the same individual when he terms him "magnique Rabirius oris" (Ep. ex Pont. 4.16. 5), but Quintilian speaks more coolly," Rabirius ac Pedo non indigni cognitione, si vacet" (10.1.90).
[W.R]A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology
Smith, William
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. William Smith, LLD, ed. 1890