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Marcus Terentius Varro (116–27 B.C.)

Varro, Marcus Terentius (var’rō). The most universally learned of ancient Roman scholars; born in 116 B.C. at Reate in the Sabine Territory, and hence surnamed Reatinus; died about 27 B.C. His special object of research was Roman antiquity,—language, usages, laws, public institutions, etc. Among his poetical writings were 150 books of joco-serious ‘Menippean Satires,’ in prose and verse, after the style of Menippus the Cynic. He wrote among others, 76 books of ‘Logistorics,’ or notes on the education of children; 41 books on ‘Roman Antiquities’; 15 books of ‘Portraits’ of 700 notabilities, with a prose biography and a metrical eulogium of each; 9 books of ‘Sciences,’ an encyclopædic work; treatises ‘On the Latin Language,’ and ‘On Farming.’ Of all his writings there now remain only the treatise ‘On Farming’; six books of the ‘Latin Language,’ in an imperfect state; and numerous other fragments.

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