Visel-
libus," had in his eye either the Chorographia or lius.
libus," had in his eye either the Chorographia or lius.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - c
Lips.
1801.
The eighteen epi-
(. . . quadam hilaritate conspersimus multa admista grams," as they are generally denominated, will
er intima philosophia, multu dialectice dicta). The be found in Burmann's Anthologia Latina, i. 50,
names of eighteen Satires, mentioned as such, are to 54, 59, 78, ii, 18, 207, 211, iii. 9, 71, 72, 83, 100,
be found in ancient writers, but the titles of ninety- 107, 147, 148, v. 50, or No. 34-51, ed. Meyer.
six pieces by Varro have been collected from the On Historico-Antiquarian topics we hear of De
grammarians and other sources, of which the whole Cultu Deorum Liber — De Vita Populi Romani,
or the greater number ought to be ranked under this otherwise, De Vita Patrum, dedicated to Atticus,
head. Among those, concerning which no doubt of which the eleventh book is quoted — De Gente
exists, we find one inscribed Als Taides oi répoutes Populi Romani Libri IV. - De Initiis Urbis Romae
- another Nescis quid serus vesper vehat - a third Liber - De Republica, of which the twentieth bouk
To é tñ párn úúpov — all of them apparently is quoted — De Familiis Trojanis — Annales, of
illustrations of popular proverbs — the Teplédeco which the third hook is quoted — Bellum Puni-
Mátwv would dwell upon the luxurious indulgences cum secundum, of which the second book is quoted
of the table, while the Tpırápnyos (Appian, B. C. but although we find the whole of the above
ii. 9), which, however, we are not specially told titles in the grammarians, it seems probable that
was a satire, may have been an exposure of the several of them belong to particular sections of the
schemes of the first triumvirate.
Antiquitates.
The Libri Logistorici, although written entirely In biography, De Vita sua Liber, and a produc-
in prose, bore some affinity to the Saturae, being tion of a very singular character, Hebdomudes vel
intended to expose and correct the vices and follies De Imaginibus, which, according to the most natural
of the day, by contrasting them with the pure and explanation of the obscure description in Pliny
simple manners and sentiments of the most dis compared with the allusions found elsewhere, must
tinguished sages of the olden time. Four essays have been a sort of album containing (engraved :)
are quoted under this name. 1. Catus, de Liberis portraits of seven hundred remarkable personages
educandis. 2. Marius, de Fortuna. 3. Messala, from Homer and Hesiod downwards, with a bio-
de Valetudine. 4. Tubero, de Origine humana ; but graphical notice and an epigram attached to each.
at least twelve more may be added to the list. How these representations were executed and mul-
Of the Saturae and Libri Logistorici nothing tiplied is a problem very hard to solve, and one
now remains but a few short mutilated fragments, which has excited much discussion. (See Plin.
but they appear to have existed entire until the H. N. xxxv. 2 ; Gell. üü. 10, 11 ; Auson. Alosell.
Libri Nc
De Aes
belong,
Mariner
up for the
thither
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VARRO.
1227
VARRO.
Prope
COIN OF M. TERENTIUS VARRO.
a
307 ; Symmach. Ep. i. 2, 4 ; and the dissertation at that time the proquaestor of Pompeius. (Eckliel,
of Creuzer, Die Bildpersonalien des Varro in the vol. v. p. 322. )
(W. R. )
Zeitschrift für Alterthuniswissenschaft, 1843.
In criticism, De Proprietate Scriptorum - De
Poetis Libri, of which the first is quoted-De Poe-
matis Libri, of which the second is quoted The-
atralcs 8. De Actionibus scenicis Libri, of which the
second and fifth are quoted—De scenicis Originibus
WAONPR
Libri, of which the first and third are quote
CO8
Dc Pluutinis Comoediis Liber-De Plautinis Quaes-
tionibus Libri, of which the second is quoted
Rhetoricorum Libri, of which the twentieth is
quoted-Dc Utilitate Sermonis Libri, of which the VARRO, P. TERE'NTIUS, a Latin poet of
fourth is quoted De Compositione Saturarum. considerable celebrity, surnamed ATACINUS,
In philosophy, De Philosophia Liber, containing, from the Atar, a river of Gallia Narbonensis,
it would appear, a sketch of the different schools his nntire province, was born, according to Hicro-
and of the peculiar doctrines by which they were nymus, B. C. 82, and in the thirty-fifth year of
characterised. (See Augustin, de Civ. Dei, xii. 4, his age applicd himself with the greatest zeal to
xix. 1. ) To this Cicero may refer when he ob- the study of Greek litemture. Of his personal
serves (Acad. i. 3), “ philosophiam multis locis history nothing further is known. He is believed
inchoasti, ad impellendum satis, ad edocendum to have been the composer of the following works,
parum,” although these words scem to point not of which a few inconsiderable fragments only havo
so much to any single work as to passages scat- come down to 11s, but it must be remarked that
tered up and down in various works. Charisius considerable doubt prevails with regard to several
quotes the second book De Forma Philosophiac, of the pieces commonly ascribed to this writer in
and Servius a treatise entitled Atrial 8. Causae, of consequence of the difficulty experienced in dis-
the same nature as those by Callimachus, Butas, tinguishing between P. Terentius Varro Atacinos
Plutarch, and others.
and his illustrious contemporary M. Terentius
In geography, Ephemeris Navalis-Ephemeris, Varro Reatinus, when the cognomen alone is men-
Libri Navales — De Ora maritima - Litoralia - tioned without the characteristic cpithet. Henco
De Aestuariis — Prognostica - but all of these it is highly probable that several relics assigned to
belong, it would appear, to a single essay, a sort of the latter may in reality belong to the former and
Mariner's Directory to the coast of Spain, drawn vice versa.
op for the use of Pompeius when about to proceed 1. Argonautica, or, as it is termed by Probus
thither and assume the command. See the Itine- (ad Virg. Georg. i. 4), Corpus Argonautarum, a ·
rarium Alexandri, c. 3, published by Angelo Mai free translation, it would seem, with, perhaps, ad-
in the fifth volume of the Classici Auctores ? ditions and variations, of the well-known poem by
Vaticanis Codicibus editi, 8vo. Rom. 1835, and Apollonius Rhodius. Upon this piece the fame of
compare Cic. ad Att. v. 11. For the treatise by Varro chiefly rested, as we may gather from the
Varro entitled Chorographia, see VARRO ATA- criticism of Quintilian (x. l. § 87). “ Atacinus
Varro in iis, per quae nomen est assecutus, inter-
Of a miscellaneous character were Epistolicarum pres operis alieni, non spernendus quidem, verum
Quaestionum Libri, of which the eighth is quoted ad augendam facultatem dicendi parum locuples. "
Disciplinarum Libri, one of which treated of Archi. It is referred to by Propertius (ii
. 25. 85), by
tecture and another of Arithmetic — Complexionum Ovid (Amor, i. 15. 21, Art. Am. iii. 335, Trist. ii.
Libri, of which the sixth is quoted--Epistolae, ad- 439), and by Statius (Silo. ii. 7. 77). Seven lines
dressed to C. Caesar, Fabius, Ser. Sulpicius, Mar- and a half, in all, have been preserved in five
cellus, and others --- Ad Libonem, of which the fragments (Serv. ad Virg. Ed. i. 66, Acn. X. 396 ;
first book is quoted — De Bibliothecis, of which Senec. Controv. xvi. ; comp. Senec. Ep. lvi. ; Charis
the second book is quoted - De Gradibus Neces- p. 70, ed. Putsch. ; Quintil. i. 5. § 18).
situdinum — Nepi xapaktúpwv, of which the third II. Chorographia 8. Cosmographia, the same
book is quoted — Mensuralia s. De Mensuris- probably with what is sometimes termed Varronis
and many others, of which several, as remarked Iter, appears to have been a metrical system of
above, ought to be classed under the Saturae. astronomy and geography. Hence Varro Atacinus
A collection of the fragments of Varro was first is named by Pliny as one of his authorities in
printed by Robert and Henry Stephens in their Books ili—vi. of the Historia Naturalis. About
Fragmenta Poctarum veterum Latinorum, Paris, twenty lines, supposed to belong to this poem, have
1564. Ausonius Popma, after having edited (1591) been preserved in six fragments. (Marius Victorin.
a collection of fragments from the Menippean Satires, p. 2503, ed. Putsch. ; Isidorus, Orig. xvii. 7. $ 58 ;
the Libri Logistorici and the De Philosophia, pub- Priscian. pp. 609, 709, ed. Putsch. ; Charis. p. 45,
lished a very extensive collection of fragments from ed. Putsch. ; Philargyr. et Serv. ad Virg. Georg.
all the works of Varro, at Franeker (Franquerae) iii. 175 ; Burmann, Anthol. Lat. v. 48, foll. )
in 1599, which was reprinted at Leyden in 1601, III. Libri Navales. Vegetius (de Re Mil. v.
and has served as the basis of all subsequent col- | 11), when speaking of the prognostics of the
lections, such as that appended to the Bipont edi- weather afforded by animals, gives as one of his
tior of the books De Lingua Latina, 8vo. 1788, authorities, “ Varro in Navalibus Libris," and John
which is the most convenient for general refer- of Salisbury (Policrat. ii. 2) employs alınost the
same words. Wernsdorf endeavours to prove that
The annexed coin was struck by Varro, when he the work spoken of was a voluminous poem upon
served under Pompeius in the war against the navigation, including a description of various coasts
piratcs ; and we learn from the coin that he was and islands, and that the Varro here indicated was
CINUS.
-
-
ence.
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1228
VARRO.
VARUS.
not, as bias been generally supposed, M. Terentius Varro was consequently the first cousin of Cicero
Varto, but Varro Atacinus. He believes, more. He was trained by his father in a knowledge of
over, that we must interpret the conplet in Ovid the civil law. He served as tribune of the soldiers
(ex Pont. iv. 16. 21),
in Asia about B. c. 79, and during Cicero's banish-
“ Velivolique maris vates, cui credere possis
ment he drew up the rogatio which the tribune
Carmina coeruleos composuisse deos,"
T. Fadius Gallus intended to bring forward to
recall the orator. Varro died after holding the
as an allusion to this production, and that Solinus office of cnrule aedile. (Cic. Brut. 76, Verr. i. 28,
(Polyhist. 11), when he quotes “ Varro de Litora- ad Att. iii. 23, where some editions have T.
Visel-
libus," had in his eye either the Chorographia or lius. ). Varro had an intrigue with Oracilia, of
the Libri Navales. 'Eight lines adduced by Ser which Valerius Maximus (viii. 2. $ 2) relates a
ving (ad Virg. Georg, i. 375, ii. 404), as the words tale, but it is not mentioned by Cicero. (Comp.
of " Vrrro,” he supposes to be extracted from these Drumann, Geschichte Roms, vol. v. p. 214. )
books. (Anthol. Lat. v. 48, 49, ed. Burmann, or 2. C. Visellius C. F. C. N. Varro, son appa-
No. 78, ed. Meyer. )
rently of No. 1, consul suffectus A. D: 12, two years
IV. A. Gellius (x. 7) notices a book in which before the death of Augustus. (Fasti Capit. ) le
“ Varro” descanted upon Europe, and Festus cites appears to be the same as the Visellius Varro, who
from “ Varro in Europa," the expression tutum sub was legatus of Lower Germany in A. D. 21. (Tac.
sode fuisscut, which lead us to conclude that it was Ann. iii. 41. )
in verse. If we admit that Varro Atacinus is 3. L. VISELLIUS C. F. C. N. VARRO, son of No. 2,
the individual here designated, we may conjecture was consul A. n. 24 with Ser. Cornelius Cethegus.
that the “ Europa ” formed a portion either of the in order to please Sejanus, Varro in his consulship
Chorogrphia or of the Libri Navales.
accused C. Silius, who had commanded in Germany
V. Bellum Sequanicum, an heroic poem in not at the same time as his father, and he covered his
less than two books (Priscian. p. 377, ed. Putsch. ) disgraceful compliance with the wishes of Sejanus
on the campaign of Julius Caesar against the league by the pretext of his father's enmity against Silius.
formed by Vercingetorix, the details of which are (Tac. Ann. iv. 17, 19. ) [Silius, No. 5. ]
given in the seventh book of the Gallic War. One VARRONIANUS, son of the emperor Jovianus,
line remains. (See Priscian. I. c. )
was consul with his father in A. D. 364. (Eutrop.
VI. Amatory elegies, the title of the collection x. 18 ; Amm. Marc. xxv. 10 ; Socrat. H. E. iii.
being, it has been conjectured, Leucudia. Thus 26, iv. 1. )
Propertius has (ii. 25. 85)
VARUS, a cognomen in many Roman gentes,
“ Haec quoque perfecto ludebat Jasone Varro,
was indicative, like many other Roman cognomens,
Varro Leucadiae maxima fama suae. ”
of a bodily defect or peculiarity ; such as Capito,
Naso, Paetus, Strabo, Scaurus, &c. Varus signified
(al. leg. max. cura al. max. flamma), and Ovid a person who had his legs bent inwards (varum
(Trist. ii. 439),
distortis cruribus, Hor. Sat. i. 3. 47), and was op-
“ Is quoque, Phasiacas Argo qui duxit in undas, posed to Valgus, which signified a person having
Non potuit Veneris furta tacere suae. "
his legs turned outwards.
VARUS. 1. L. VARUS, an Epicurean, and a
VII. Epigrammata. One of these survives, an friend of Caesar, mentioned by Quintilian (vi. 3.
epitaph on Licinus, the freedman of Augustus. See 878). See VARUS, ATIUS, No. 2, sub finem.
Anthol. Lat. ii. 37, ed. Burmann, or No. 77, cd. 2. Varus, a friend and patron of Virgil, to whom
Mever.
he dedicated his sixth eclogue, and whom he men-
IX. Saturae. These, we are assured by Horace tions in the ninth (ix. 27). He is perhaps the
(Sat. i. 10. 46), were a failure.
same as Q. Atius Varus, one of Caesar's officers.
“Hoc erat, experto frustra Varrone Atacino. ”
(VARUS, Arius, No. 2. )
3. VARUS, to whom Herace addresses one of his
If we can trust the old commentators on this odes (i. 18), is perhaps the same as the crtic Quin-
passage, Varro was sensible of his own deficiencies, tilius (Hor. Ar. Poët
. 438), whose death Horace
and never formally published his essays in this deplores. (Carm. i. 24. ) Respecting him see
d-partment, so that we need feel no surprise that VARUS, QUINtilius, No. 12.
no trace of them should have remained.
VARUS, ALFE'NUS, whose praenomen may
We may observe that several of the fragments have been Publius, was a pupil of Servius Sul-
of this author have been quoted by the grammarians, picius, and the only pupil of Servins from whom
in consequence of the phrascology having been there are any excerpts in the Digest. Nothing
imitated by Virgil, who has appropriated some is known about him except from a story preserved
lines entire without change. (Hieron. Chron. by the scholiast Acron, in his notes on the Satires
Euscb. Olymp. clxxiv. 3 ; Porphyr. ad Hor. Sat. of Horace. (Sat. i. 3. 130. ) The scholiast assumes
i. 10. 46; Ruhnken. in Hom. hymn. in Cerer. &c. , the “ Alfenus Vafer” of Horace to be the lawyer,
epist. crit. ii. ; Wernsdorf, Poetae Lat. Min. vol. v. and says that he was a native of Cremona, where
pt. iii. p. 1383, foll. 7 ; Wüllner, Commentatio de he carried on the trade of a barber or a botcher of
P. Terentii Varronis Vita et Scriptis, 4to. Monaster. shoes (for there are both readings, sutor and ton-
1029. See also the notes of Meyer, in his edition sor) ; that he came to Rome, where he became a
of the Anthologia Latina, No. 77, 78. ) [W. R. ) pupil of Servius Sulpicius, attained the dignity of
VARRO, VIBI'DIUS, expelled from the senate the consulship, and was honoured with a public
by 'Tiberius, in A. D. 17, on account of having lost funeral. Pomponius also states that Varus at.
his property by extravagance. (Tac. Ann. ii. 48. ) tained the consular dignity ; but this will not prove
VARRO, VISE'LLIUS.
(. . . quadam hilaritate conspersimus multa admista grams," as they are generally denominated, will
er intima philosophia, multu dialectice dicta). The be found in Burmann's Anthologia Latina, i. 50,
names of eighteen Satires, mentioned as such, are to 54, 59, 78, ii, 18, 207, 211, iii. 9, 71, 72, 83, 100,
be found in ancient writers, but the titles of ninety- 107, 147, 148, v. 50, or No. 34-51, ed. Meyer.
six pieces by Varro have been collected from the On Historico-Antiquarian topics we hear of De
grammarians and other sources, of which the whole Cultu Deorum Liber — De Vita Populi Romani,
or the greater number ought to be ranked under this otherwise, De Vita Patrum, dedicated to Atticus,
head. Among those, concerning which no doubt of which the eleventh book is quoted — De Gente
exists, we find one inscribed Als Taides oi répoutes Populi Romani Libri IV. - De Initiis Urbis Romae
- another Nescis quid serus vesper vehat - a third Liber - De Republica, of which the twentieth bouk
To é tñ párn úúpov — all of them apparently is quoted — De Familiis Trojanis — Annales, of
illustrations of popular proverbs — the Teplédeco which the third hook is quoted — Bellum Puni-
Mátwv would dwell upon the luxurious indulgences cum secundum, of which the second book is quoted
of the table, while the Tpırápnyos (Appian, B. C. but although we find the whole of the above
ii. 9), which, however, we are not specially told titles in the grammarians, it seems probable that
was a satire, may have been an exposure of the several of them belong to particular sections of the
schemes of the first triumvirate.
Antiquitates.
The Libri Logistorici, although written entirely In biography, De Vita sua Liber, and a produc-
in prose, bore some affinity to the Saturae, being tion of a very singular character, Hebdomudes vel
intended to expose and correct the vices and follies De Imaginibus, which, according to the most natural
of the day, by contrasting them with the pure and explanation of the obscure description in Pliny
simple manners and sentiments of the most dis compared with the allusions found elsewhere, must
tinguished sages of the olden time. Four essays have been a sort of album containing (engraved :)
are quoted under this name. 1. Catus, de Liberis portraits of seven hundred remarkable personages
educandis. 2. Marius, de Fortuna. 3. Messala, from Homer and Hesiod downwards, with a bio-
de Valetudine. 4. Tubero, de Origine humana ; but graphical notice and an epigram attached to each.
at least twelve more may be added to the list. How these representations were executed and mul-
Of the Saturae and Libri Logistorici nothing tiplied is a problem very hard to solve, and one
now remains but a few short mutilated fragments, which has excited much discussion. (See Plin.
but they appear to have existed entire until the H. N. xxxv. 2 ; Gell. üü. 10, 11 ; Auson. Alosell.
Libri Nc
De Aes
belong,
Mariner
up for the
thither
rarium
in the
Vaticani
compare
Varro e
CINUS.
Of 2. DI
Quaestion
Disciplin
tecture a
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dressed
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first bool
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## p. 1227 (#1243) ##########################################
VARRO.
1227
VARRO.
Prope
COIN OF M. TERENTIUS VARRO.
a
307 ; Symmach. Ep. i. 2, 4 ; and the dissertation at that time the proquaestor of Pompeius. (Eckliel,
of Creuzer, Die Bildpersonalien des Varro in the vol. v. p. 322. )
(W. R. )
Zeitschrift für Alterthuniswissenschaft, 1843.
In criticism, De Proprietate Scriptorum - De
Poetis Libri, of which the first is quoted-De Poe-
matis Libri, of which the second is quoted The-
atralcs 8. De Actionibus scenicis Libri, of which the
second and fifth are quoted—De scenicis Originibus
WAONPR
Libri, of which the first and third are quote
CO8
Dc Pluutinis Comoediis Liber-De Plautinis Quaes-
tionibus Libri, of which the second is quoted
Rhetoricorum Libri, of which the twentieth is
quoted-Dc Utilitate Sermonis Libri, of which the VARRO, P. TERE'NTIUS, a Latin poet of
fourth is quoted De Compositione Saturarum. considerable celebrity, surnamed ATACINUS,
In philosophy, De Philosophia Liber, containing, from the Atar, a river of Gallia Narbonensis,
it would appear, a sketch of the different schools his nntire province, was born, according to Hicro-
and of the peculiar doctrines by which they were nymus, B. C. 82, and in the thirty-fifth year of
characterised. (See Augustin, de Civ. Dei, xii. 4, his age applicd himself with the greatest zeal to
xix. 1. ) To this Cicero may refer when he ob- the study of Greek litemture. Of his personal
serves (Acad. i. 3), “ philosophiam multis locis history nothing further is known. He is believed
inchoasti, ad impellendum satis, ad edocendum to have been the composer of the following works,
parum,” although these words scem to point not of which a few inconsiderable fragments only havo
so much to any single work as to passages scat- come down to 11s, but it must be remarked that
tered up and down in various works. Charisius considerable doubt prevails with regard to several
quotes the second book De Forma Philosophiac, of the pieces commonly ascribed to this writer in
and Servius a treatise entitled Atrial 8. Causae, of consequence of the difficulty experienced in dis-
the same nature as those by Callimachus, Butas, tinguishing between P. Terentius Varro Atacinos
Plutarch, and others.
and his illustrious contemporary M. Terentius
In geography, Ephemeris Navalis-Ephemeris, Varro Reatinus, when the cognomen alone is men-
Libri Navales — De Ora maritima - Litoralia - tioned without the characteristic cpithet. Henco
De Aestuariis — Prognostica - but all of these it is highly probable that several relics assigned to
belong, it would appear, to a single essay, a sort of the latter may in reality belong to the former and
Mariner's Directory to the coast of Spain, drawn vice versa.
op for the use of Pompeius when about to proceed 1. Argonautica, or, as it is termed by Probus
thither and assume the command. See the Itine- (ad Virg. Georg. i. 4), Corpus Argonautarum, a ·
rarium Alexandri, c. 3, published by Angelo Mai free translation, it would seem, with, perhaps, ad-
in the fifth volume of the Classici Auctores ? ditions and variations, of the well-known poem by
Vaticanis Codicibus editi, 8vo. Rom. 1835, and Apollonius Rhodius. Upon this piece the fame of
compare Cic. ad Att. v. 11. For the treatise by Varro chiefly rested, as we may gather from the
Varro entitled Chorographia, see VARRO ATA- criticism of Quintilian (x. l. § 87). “ Atacinus
Varro in iis, per quae nomen est assecutus, inter-
Of a miscellaneous character were Epistolicarum pres operis alieni, non spernendus quidem, verum
Quaestionum Libri, of which the eighth is quoted ad augendam facultatem dicendi parum locuples. "
Disciplinarum Libri, one of which treated of Archi. It is referred to by Propertius (ii
. 25. 85), by
tecture and another of Arithmetic — Complexionum Ovid (Amor, i. 15. 21, Art. Am. iii. 335, Trist. ii.
Libri, of which the sixth is quoted--Epistolae, ad- 439), and by Statius (Silo. ii. 7. 77). Seven lines
dressed to C. Caesar, Fabius, Ser. Sulpicius, Mar- and a half, in all, have been preserved in five
cellus, and others --- Ad Libonem, of which the fragments (Serv. ad Virg. Ed. i. 66, Acn. X. 396 ;
first book is quoted — De Bibliothecis, of which Senec. Controv. xvi. ; comp. Senec. Ep. lvi. ; Charis
the second book is quoted - De Gradibus Neces- p. 70, ed. Putsch. ; Quintil. i. 5. § 18).
situdinum — Nepi xapaktúpwv, of which the third II. Chorographia 8. Cosmographia, the same
book is quoted — Mensuralia s. De Mensuris- probably with what is sometimes termed Varronis
and many others, of which several, as remarked Iter, appears to have been a metrical system of
above, ought to be classed under the Saturae. astronomy and geography. Hence Varro Atacinus
A collection of the fragments of Varro was first is named by Pliny as one of his authorities in
printed by Robert and Henry Stephens in their Books ili—vi. of the Historia Naturalis. About
Fragmenta Poctarum veterum Latinorum, Paris, twenty lines, supposed to belong to this poem, have
1564. Ausonius Popma, after having edited (1591) been preserved in six fragments. (Marius Victorin.
a collection of fragments from the Menippean Satires, p. 2503, ed. Putsch. ; Isidorus, Orig. xvii. 7. $ 58 ;
the Libri Logistorici and the De Philosophia, pub- Priscian. pp. 609, 709, ed. Putsch. ; Charis. p. 45,
lished a very extensive collection of fragments from ed. Putsch. ; Philargyr. et Serv. ad Virg. Georg.
all the works of Varro, at Franeker (Franquerae) iii. 175 ; Burmann, Anthol. Lat. v. 48, foll. )
in 1599, which was reprinted at Leyden in 1601, III. Libri Navales. Vegetius (de Re Mil. v.
and has served as the basis of all subsequent col- | 11), when speaking of the prognostics of the
lections, such as that appended to the Bipont edi- weather afforded by animals, gives as one of his
tior of the books De Lingua Latina, 8vo. 1788, authorities, “ Varro in Navalibus Libris," and John
which is the most convenient for general refer- of Salisbury (Policrat. ii. 2) employs alınost the
same words. Wernsdorf endeavours to prove that
The annexed coin was struck by Varro, when he the work spoken of was a voluminous poem upon
served under Pompeius in the war against the navigation, including a description of various coasts
piratcs ; and we learn from the coin that he was and islands, and that the Varro here indicated was
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VARRO.
VARUS.
not, as bias been generally supposed, M. Terentius Varro was consequently the first cousin of Cicero
Varto, but Varro Atacinus. He believes, more. He was trained by his father in a knowledge of
over, that we must interpret the conplet in Ovid the civil law. He served as tribune of the soldiers
(ex Pont. iv. 16. 21),
in Asia about B. c. 79, and during Cicero's banish-
“ Velivolique maris vates, cui credere possis
ment he drew up the rogatio which the tribune
Carmina coeruleos composuisse deos,"
T. Fadius Gallus intended to bring forward to
recall the orator. Varro died after holding the
as an allusion to this production, and that Solinus office of cnrule aedile. (Cic. Brut. 76, Verr. i. 28,
(Polyhist. 11), when he quotes “ Varro de Litora- ad Att. iii. 23, where some editions have T.
Visel-
libus," had in his eye either the Chorographia or lius. ). Varro had an intrigue with Oracilia, of
the Libri Navales. 'Eight lines adduced by Ser which Valerius Maximus (viii. 2. $ 2) relates a
ving (ad Virg. Georg, i. 375, ii. 404), as the words tale, but it is not mentioned by Cicero. (Comp.
of " Vrrro,” he supposes to be extracted from these Drumann, Geschichte Roms, vol. v. p. 214. )
books. (Anthol. Lat. v. 48, 49, ed. Burmann, or 2. C. Visellius C. F. C. N. Varro, son appa-
No. 78, ed. Meyer. )
rently of No. 1, consul suffectus A. D: 12, two years
IV. A. Gellius (x. 7) notices a book in which before the death of Augustus. (Fasti Capit. ) le
“ Varro” descanted upon Europe, and Festus cites appears to be the same as the Visellius Varro, who
from “ Varro in Europa," the expression tutum sub was legatus of Lower Germany in A. D. 21. (Tac.
sode fuisscut, which lead us to conclude that it was Ann. iii. 41. )
in verse. If we admit that Varro Atacinus is 3. L. VISELLIUS C. F. C. N. VARRO, son of No. 2,
the individual here designated, we may conjecture was consul A. n. 24 with Ser. Cornelius Cethegus.
that the “ Europa ” formed a portion either of the in order to please Sejanus, Varro in his consulship
Chorogrphia or of the Libri Navales.
accused C. Silius, who had commanded in Germany
V. Bellum Sequanicum, an heroic poem in not at the same time as his father, and he covered his
less than two books (Priscian. p. 377, ed. Putsch. ) disgraceful compliance with the wishes of Sejanus
on the campaign of Julius Caesar against the league by the pretext of his father's enmity against Silius.
formed by Vercingetorix, the details of which are (Tac. Ann. iv. 17, 19. ) [Silius, No. 5. ]
given in the seventh book of the Gallic War. One VARRONIANUS, son of the emperor Jovianus,
line remains. (See Priscian. I. c. )
was consul with his father in A. D. 364. (Eutrop.
VI. Amatory elegies, the title of the collection x. 18 ; Amm. Marc. xxv. 10 ; Socrat. H. E. iii.
being, it has been conjectured, Leucudia. Thus 26, iv. 1. )
Propertius has (ii. 25. 85)
VARUS, a cognomen in many Roman gentes,
“ Haec quoque perfecto ludebat Jasone Varro,
was indicative, like many other Roman cognomens,
Varro Leucadiae maxima fama suae. ”
of a bodily defect or peculiarity ; such as Capito,
Naso, Paetus, Strabo, Scaurus, &c. Varus signified
(al. leg. max. cura al. max. flamma), and Ovid a person who had his legs bent inwards (varum
(Trist. ii. 439),
distortis cruribus, Hor. Sat. i. 3. 47), and was op-
“ Is quoque, Phasiacas Argo qui duxit in undas, posed to Valgus, which signified a person having
Non potuit Veneris furta tacere suae. "
his legs turned outwards.
VARUS. 1. L. VARUS, an Epicurean, and a
VII. Epigrammata. One of these survives, an friend of Caesar, mentioned by Quintilian (vi. 3.
epitaph on Licinus, the freedman of Augustus. See 878). See VARUS, ATIUS, No. 2, sub finem.
Anthol. Lat. ii. 37, ed. Burmann, or No. 77, cd. 2. Varus, a friend and patron of Virgil, to whom
Mever.
he dedicated his sixth eclogue, and whom he men-
IX. Saturae. These, we are assured by Horace tions in the ninth (ix. 27). He is perhaps the
(Sat. i. 10. 46), were a failure.
same as Q. Atius Varus, one of Caesar's officers.
“Hoc erat, experto frustra Varrone Atacino. ”
(VARUS, Arius, No. 2. )
3. VARUS, to whom Herace addresses one of his
If we can trust the old commentators on this odes (i. 18), is perhaps the same as the crtic Quin-
passage, Varro was sensible of his own deficiencies, tilius (Hor. Ar. Poët
. 438), whose death Horace
and never formally published his essays in this deplores. (Carm. i. 24. ) Respecting him see
d-partment, so that we need feel no surprise that VARUS, QUINtilius, No. 12.
no trace of them should have remained.
VARUS, ALFE'NUS, whose praenomen may
We may observe that several of the fragments have been Publius, was a pupil of Servius Sul-
of this author have been quoted by the grammarians, picius, and the only pupil of Servins from whom
in consequence of the phrascology having been there are any excerpts in the Digest. Nothing
imitated by Virgil, who has appropriated some is known about him except from a story preserved
lines entire without change. (Hieron. Chron. by the scholiast Acron, in his notes on the Satires
Euscb. Olymp. clxxiv. 3 ; Porphyr. ad Hor. Sat. of Horace. (Sat. i. 3. 130. ) The scholiast assumes
i. 10. 46; Ruhnken. in Hom. hymn. in Cerer. &c. , the “ Alfenus Vafer” of Horace to be the lawyer,
epist. crit. ii. ; Wernsdorf, Poetae Lat. Min. vol. v. and says that he was a native of Cremona, where
pt. iii. p. 1383, foll. 7 ; Wüllner, Commentatio de he carried on the trade of a barber or a botcher of
P. Terentii Varronis Vita et Scriptis, 4to. Monaster. shoes (for there are both readings, sutor and ton-
1029. See also the notes of Meyer, in his edition sor) ; that he came to Rome, where he became a
of the Anthologia Latina, No. 77, 78. ) [W. R. ) pupil of Servius Sulpicius, attained the dignity of
VARRO, VIBI'DIUS, expelled from the senate the consulship, and was honoured with a public
by 'Tiberius, in A. D. 17, on account of having lost funeral. Pomponius also states that Varus at.
his property by extravagance. (Tac. Ann. ii. 48. ) tained the consular dignity ; but this will not prove
VARRO, VISE'LLIUS.
