3. VARUS, to whom Horace addresses one of his odes (1.18), is perhaps the same as the critic Quintilius (Hor. Ar. Poet. 438), whose death Horace deplores. (Carm. 1.24.) Respecting him see VARUS, QUINTILIUS, No. 12.
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