Varro
historical figure · 6 works · 11 mentions · 16 anchored passages
M. Terentius Varro · Varro of the pen · the Roman Cynic · the Roman Diogenes · the most learned of the Romans · the same Varro
in the texts
Ad Nationes
Roman antiquarian author cited both for a historical report and for satirical mockery of Jupiter.
and the Roman Diogenes, Varro of the pen, brings in three hundred Joves — or "Jupiters," as we must say — without heads.
But the Romans' gods too Varro disposed three ways:
Whence Varro too makes fire the soul of the world, so that fire likewise governs all things in the world, just as the soul in us.
Institutes of Roman Law
Roman antiquarian whose De Lingua Latina preserves competing jurists' definitions of nexum.
Varro, L.
Varro, L.
Varro 6, 74, ‘Sponsor’ et ‘Praes’ et ‘Vas’ neque idem .
The Freedom of the Seas (Mare Liberum)
Roman scholar cited for his mention of maritime fish-ponds.
Et huius generis, puto fuisse piscinas maritimas quarum Varro et Columella meminerunt.
I suspect too that the seawater reservoirs for fish mentioned by Varro and Columella were of this sort.
The Rights of War and Peace
Roman antiquarian cited as a chronological marker for the decline of ceremonial customs.
For Arnobius informs us, that in his time many of them had fallen into disuse, and even in the time of Varro some of them were omitted.
At least there is as much probability in this conjecture, as in that of Varro, who derives it from the word terendo, treading the soil.
Consolation to Helvia
Marcus Terentius Varro, Roman scholar, cited for his philosophical remedy for the pain of exile.
Against the change of place itself, the other mishaps that cling to exile being stripped away, Varro, the most learned of the Romans, thinks this remedy enough:
Apologeticum
Roman scholar cited for satirizing the multiplicity of Jupiter figures.
But Diogenes too makes some sport with Hercules, and the Roman Cynic Varro brings in three hundred Joves — or Jupiters, as they should be called — without heads.