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MARCUS TERENTIUS VARRO (B.C. 116-28) whom Quintilian called "the most learned of the Romans," and Petrarch "il terzo gran lume Romano," ranking him with Cicero and Virgil, probably studied agriculture before he studied any thing else, for he was born on a Sabine farm, and although of a well to do family, was bred in the habits of simplicity and rural industry with which the poets have made that name synonymous.
VARRO, MARCUS TERENTIUS ° (116–27 b.c.e.), Roman scholar. Varro mentions the date palms of Judea ( De re rustica 2:1, 27). Augustine reports that Varro identified the Jewish God with Jupiter ( De consensu Evangelistarum 1:30, 31, 42). Elsewhere he notes that Varro, in praising a bygone era when Romans did not use images in worshiping gods ...
MARCUS. TERENTIUS VARRO (116-27 B.C.), Roman polymath and man of letters, was born at Reate in the Sabine country. Here he imbibed in his earlier years a good measure of the hardy simplicity and strong seriousness which the later Romans attributed to the men of the early republic - characteristics which were supposed to linger in the Sabine land after they had fled from the rest of Italy.
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Mar 10, 2009 · Varro, Marcus Terentius (116-27 B.C.)De Lingua Latina (ed. Julius Pomponius Laetus). [Rome: Georgius Lauer, c. 1471-2]. This Roman edition is the editio princeps of De lingua latina and the first work of Marcus Terentius Varro to be printed. Unfortunately, our copy is missing the first ten leaves, which included a letter addressed to Bartholomaeus Platina, a summary of the De lingua latina, and a mention to Laetus' editorial work on the text.
Mar 12, 2021 · Varro, Marcus Terentius. Publication date 1967 Topics Latin language -- Grammar -- Early works to 1500, Linguistics -- Rome, Latin language -- Grammar, Linguistics ...
Marcus Terentius Varro (116–27 BC) was a prolific Roman writer who was one of the first people to propose the concept that things we cannot see (what we now call microorganisms) can cause disease (Figure 1.4).
