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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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    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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  • Gaius Terentius Varro (fl. 218-200 BC) 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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  • (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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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 the Roman Claudia gens Gaius Sallustius Crispus, Roman writer Marcus Terentius Varro, Roman scholar Vespasian, Roman emperor and founder of the Flavian...
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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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    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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    primary source on Roman religion was the lost theological works of Marcus Terentius Varro, notes that a phallic image was carried in procession annually at...
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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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  • command of the legatus, Claudius Glaber. In 72–71 BC, Roman general Marcus Terentius Varro Lucullus, proconsul of the Roman province of Macedonia, marched...
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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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    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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    period, as evidenced by an import trade from Gaul mentioned by Marcus Terentius Varro in his writings. The modern word ham is derived from the Old English...
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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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    cross-cultural studies. Much information on the Mysteries comes from Marcus Terentius Varro.[citation needed] Justin Martyr in the 2nd century explicitly noted...
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    regarded as the middle day of spring. Late Roman Republic scholar Marcus Terentius Varro defined spring as lasting from the seventh day before the Ides of...
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    Belles Lettres William Davis Hooper, translator. Marcus Porcius Cato, "On Agriculture"; Marcus Terentius Varro, "On Agriculture". Harvard: Loeb Classical Library...
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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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    23 March 2021. cf. the civil, natural and mythical theologies of Marcus Terentius Varro A summary of the modern view is given in Robin Lane Fox, Pagans...
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    sausage dates back to the 1st century BC, when the Roman historian Marcus Terentius Varro described stuffing spiced and salted meat into pig intestines, as...
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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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