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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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