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Marcus Terentius Varro

Marcus Terentius Varro (116–27 BC) was a Roman scholar and writer, born at Reate in the Sabine country and often called Varro Reatinus. He wrote on a very wide range of subjects, and only two of his works survive in substantial form: De re rustica (On Agriculture), in three books, and part of De lingua Latina (On the Latin Language). Many of his other writings, including the Antiquitates rerum humanarum et divinarum and the Saturae Menippeae, are known only through fragments and later citations. He served in public life during the late Republic and was a contemporary of Cicero, who dedicated his Academica to him.

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Ancient History In hoc volumine habentur haec. Cornucopiae, siue linguae Latinae commentarij diligentissime recogniti, atque ex archetypo emendati. Index copiosissimus dictionum omnium … Eiusdem Sypontini libellus, quo Plynii epistola, ad Titum Vespasianum corrigitur. Cornelij Vitelij in eum ipsum Sypontini libellum annotationes. M. Terentij Varronis de lingua latina libri tres. Quartus. Quintus. Sextus. Eiusdem De analogia libri tres. Sexti Pompei Festi undeuiginti librorum fragmenta. Nonij Marcelli Compendia, in quibus tertia ferè pars addita est … idque labore, & diligentia Iucundi nostri Veronensis, qui in Gallia Nonium cum antiquis contulit exemplaribus. Additus … longa dissertatio de generibus. Huc accedunt castigationes … Michaelis Bentini … – Marcus Terentius Varro Marcus Terentius Varro

A Renaissance compilation of classical Latin scholarship featuring works by Varro, Festus, and Nonius Marcellus.

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