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Marcus Terentius Varro

Also known as Marcus Terentius Varro Reatinus, Varro Reatinus, Varro

Roman scholar, polymath and author (116–27 BC)

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Marcus Terentius Varro was a highly learned Roman scholar and writer who lived from 116 to 27 BC and wrote extensively on subjects ranging from history and language to agriculture and philosophy. He matters because he was one of the most influential intellectual figures of ancient Rome, and much of what we know about Roman culture, literature, and thought comes from references to his enormous body of work, even though most of his writings have been lost.

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Instance of: human
Gender: male
Citizenship: Ancient Rome
Place of birth: Rieti
Place of death: Rome
Position held: praetor
Languages spoken: Latin
Student of: Antiochus of Ascalon
Image: Marco Terenzio Varrone.jpg
Significant event: proscription

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Commons category: Marcus Terentius Varro
described by source: Pauly–Wissowa
time period: Roman Republic
gens: Terentia gens
writing language: Latin
cognomen: Varro
social classification: equites
date of birth: 0116-00-00
date of death: 0027-00-00
Commons Creator page: Marcus Terentius Varro
name in native language: Marcus Terentius Varrō
P13311: Saint-André-en-Morvan

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Works in European collections

33 objects attributed to Marcus Terentius Varro, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

Ex libro quem de lingua Latina ac verborum origine conscripsit, fragmenta. Eiusdem de analogia libri tres

T. Varro De re rustica

Fragmenta quae inveniuntur in libris S. Augustini de civitate Dei (etc.) edidit Carolus Henricus Josephus Francken

Opera agricolationum, Columellae, Varronis Catonis[que] nec non Palladii

M. Terentii Varronis Opera Omnia Quae Extant : Cum Notis Iosephi Scaligeri, Adriani Turnebi, Petri Victorii ... Antonii Augustini

De lingua latina

Libri de re rvstica /

Libri De Re Rvstica :

Libri De Re Rvstica /

De Re Rvstica: M. Catonis Liber I., M. Terentij Varronis Lib. III., Palladij Lib. XIIII., L. Iunij Moderati Columellae Lib. XIII. Priscarvm uocum in libris de re rustica enarrationes, per Georgium Alexandrinum. Philippi Beroal. in lib. XIII Columellae annotationes. Aldus de dierum generibus, simul'q[ue] de umbris & horis, quae apud Palladium :

M. Terentii Varronis pars librorum quattuor et viginti de lingua latina..

M. Terentii Varronis De lingua latina libri tres, totidem de Analogia, cum Michaelis Bentini castigationibus, M. Portii Catonis Originum lib. I ..

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Encyclopedic overview

An imagined portrait of an elderly Varro, engraving from André Thevet, Les Vrais pourtraits et vies des hommes illustres grecz, latins et payens (1584). Marcus Terentius Varro (116–27 BC) was a Roman polymath and a prolific author. He is regarded as ancient Rome's greatest scholar, and was described by Petrarch as "the third great light of Rome" (after Virgil and Cicero). He is sometimes called Varro Reatinus ("Varro of Rieti") to distinguish him from his younger contemporary Varro Atacinus ("Varro of Atax").

Biography

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