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    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...
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  • Marcus Terentius Varro Lucullus (116 – soon after 56 BC), younger brother of the more famous Lucius Licinius Lucullus, was a supporter of Lucius Cornelius...
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  • Greece. Marcus Terentius Varro, adopted Marcus Licinius Lucullus, who subsequently became Marcus Terentius Varro Lucullus. Marcus Terentius M. f. Varro Lucullus...
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    (Antiquities of Human and Divine Things) was one of the chief works of Marcus Terentius Varro (1st century BC). The work has been lost, but having been substantially...
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  • Gaius Terentius Varro (fl. 218-200 BCE) was a Roman politician and general active during the Second Punic War. A plebeian son of a butcher, he was a populist...
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    ancient Chinese Erya are also sometimes described as "encyclopedias". Marcus Terentius Varro (/ˈmɑːrkəs təˈrɛnʃəs ˈværoʊ/; 116 BC – 27 BC) was an ancient Roman...
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    citizens. Ai of Han, Chinese emperor of the Han Dynasty (d. 1 BC) Marcus Terentius Varro, Roman scholar and writer (b. 116 BC) Wikimedia Commons has media...
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    also Martianus Capella 1.58; Mueller (2010). The Roman theologian Marcus Terentius Varro listed Saturn among the Sabine gods.(p 139) See also the Etruscan...
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    Crassus and after the rebels realized that the legions of Pompey and Marcus Terentius Varro Lucullus were moving in to entrap them. The armies of Spartacus...
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    biographical compendium of famous Romans published by his contemporary Marcus Terentius Varro. Two biographies of Lucullus survive today, Plutarch's Lucullus...
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    important Roman goddess, she is highly revered, honored, and respected. Marcus Terentius Varro considered her to be ideal and the plan for the universe personified...
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    they were first observed, for example by the Jains in India and by Marcus Terentius Varro in ancient Rome. The first recorded microscope observation was of...
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  • BC) 27 BC Marcus Terentius Varro, Roman scholar and writer (b. 116 BC) 26 BC Gaius Cornelius Gallus, Roman politician and poet (b. 70 BC) Marcus Valerius...
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  • II Lathyros becomes king of Egypt and claims the throne. Marcus Terentius Varro (aka "Varro"), Roman scholar and writer (d. 27 BC) June 26 – Ptolemy VIII...
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  • the Aulus Terentius Varro who was Murena's legate and tried for extortion. Marcus Terentius Varro Lucullus, the consul of 73 BC, born Marcus Licinius Lucullus...
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  • of Solomon (c. 50 BC) and Plato's dialogue Timaeus (c. 360 BC). Marcus Terentius Varro (116–27 BCE) established a distinction between political theology...
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    virtue and goodwill. Two fragments which have been preserved by Marcus Terentius Varro in his De Lingua Latina, 7.26, 27 (fragment 2 and 1 by Maurenbrecher's...
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    religious cult and the state was discussed by the ancient Latin scholar Marcus Terentius Varro, under the term of theologia civilis (lit. 'civic theology'). The...
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    Latin the collar was called mellum or maelium or mellum or millus. Marcus Terentius Varro wrote that the farm dogs should have spiked collars for protection...
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    Roman agriculture, together with the works of Cato the Elder and Marcus Terentius Varro, both of which he occasionally cites. A smaller book on trees, De...
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    bees, placed in its own family, Varroidae. The genus was named for Marcus Terentius Varro, a Roman scholar and beekeeper. The condition of a honeybee colony...
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    Gellius, Isidorus Hispalensis, Macrobius, Nonius Marcellus, Priscian, Marcus Terentius Varro). Much of the information concerning the life of Naevius is coloured...
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    the Aventine Hill in ancient Rome itself.[full citation needed] Marcus Terentius Varro asserted that the oracular responses were given in Saturnian verse...
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  • the Nature of Animals (3rd century CE). In Latin literature, both Marcus Terentius Varro and Cicero wrote works on admiranda ("marvelous things"), which...
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    whose production methods are described by Latin authors such as Marcus Terentius Varro and Pliny the Elder about 2,000 years ago. Its long-term storage...
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  • Latinarum i. Marcus Terentius Varro, quoted in De Praenominibus (epitome by Julius Paris) Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita, books I-V Marcus Terentius Varro, quoted...
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    Harpocrates the god of silence and secrecy, taking their cue from Marcus Terentius Varro, who asserted in De lingua Latina of Caelum (Sky) and Terra (Earth)...
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    Antiquities of the Greek historian Dionysius of Halicarnassus (relying on Marcus Terentius Varro), Ab Urbe Condita by Livy (probably dependent on Quintus Fabius...
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    Deireadh Fómhair ("end of autumn"). Late Roman Republic scholar Marcus Terentius Varro defined autumn as lasting from the third day before the Ides of...
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    documented in the Rerum rusticarum libri III (chapters XII and XIV) by Marcus Terentius Varro, and a century later in the Naturalis Historia (books VIII and IX)...
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