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VARRO, PUBLIUS TERENTIUS

This article appears in Volume V27, Page 924 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: VAN-VIR
VARRO, PUBLIUS TERENTIUS , surnamed ATACINUS (c. 8236 B.c.), Latin poet, was born near the river Atax in Gallia Narbonensis. He was perhaps the first Roman born beyond the Alps who attained
eminence
  in literature. He seems to have taken at first Ennius and
Lucilius
  as his models, and wrote an epic, entitled Bellum Sequanicum, eulogizing the exploits of Caesar in Gaul and Britain, and also Satires, of which
Horace
  (Satires, i. to) speaks slightingly. Accordingly to Jerome, Varro did not begin to study Greek literature until his thirty-fifth year. The last ten years of his
life
  were given up to the imitation of Greek poets of the Alexandrian school. Quintilian (Instit. x. 1, 87), who describes him as a " translator," speaks of him in qualified terms of praise. Although not vigorous enough to excel in the historical epic or in the serious
work
  of the Roman satura, Varro yet possessed in considerable measure the lighter gifts which we admire in Catullus.
His
chief
  poem of the later period was the Argonautae, closely modelled on the epic of Apollonius Rhodius. The age was prolific of epics, both historical and mythological, and that of Varro seems to have held a high rank among them. It is highly spoken of by Ovid (Am. i. 15, 21, A.A. iii. 335, Tristia, ii. 439) and
Statius
  (Silvae, ii. 7, 77), and Propertius (ii. 34, 85) awards equal praise to his erotic elegies. Varro was also the author of a Cosmographia, or Chorographia, a geographical poem imitated from the Greek of Eratosthenes or of Alexander of
Ephesus
 , surnamed Lychnus; and of an Ephemeris, a hexameter poem on weather-signs after
Aratus
 , from which Virgil has borrowed. Fragments in A. Riese's edition of the fragments of the Menippean Satires of Varro of Reate; see also monographs by F. Wollner (1829) and R. Unger (1861).


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