Nonetheless he is inferior to sovereign god Oðinn: the Minor Völuspá defines his relationship to Oðinn almost with the same terms as which Varro defines that of Janus, god of the prima to Jupiter, god of the summa: Heimdallr is born as the firstborn ( primigenius, var einn borinn í árdaga ), Oðinn is born as the greatest ( maximus, var einn borinn öllum meiri ).

Marcus Terentius Varro and Verrius Flaccus were the main sources on the theology of Jupiter and archaic Roman religion in general.

Unlike the Greek tradition of Cronus and Zeus, the usurpation of Saturn as king of the gods by Jupiter was not viewed by the Latins as violent or hostile ; Saturn continued to be revered in his temple at the foot of the Capitol Hill, which maintained the alternative name Saturnius into the time of Varro.

Varro notes the Capitolium Vetus an earlier cult sited on the Quirinal, devoted to Jupiter, Juno and Minerva, among whom Martial makes a distinction between the " old Jupiter " and the " new ".

Augustine quotes Varro as explaining the genius as " the god who is in charge and has the power to generate everything " and " the rational spirit of all ( therefore, everyone has their own )".

Misunderstanding this sign, the later Greeks and Roman poets made 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 ) " These gods are the same as those who in Egypt are called Serapis and Isis, though Harpocrates with his finger makes a sign to me to be quiet.

Varro states his teacher Aelius Stilo called this god Diovis filium, i. e. Dius Filius as the Grreek Διόσκορον Castorem on the grounds of the alternance of the letters d and l in the Sabine tongue and identified him in Sabine Sancus and Greek Hercules.

In Etruscan mythology, Voltumna or Veltha was the chthonic ( earth ) deity, who became the supreme god of the Etruscan pantheon, the deus Etruriae princeps, according to Varro.

The function of ' god of beginnings ' has been clearly expressed in numerous ancient sources, among them most notably perhaps Cicero, Ovid and Varro.

Varro would have stated that he was the god of harbours and patron of gates.

The late Republican scholar Varro says that the Robigalia was named for the god Robigus, who as the numen or personification of agricultural disease could also prevent it.

Priestesses of Liber, the Roman god identified with Dionysus, are mentioned by the 1st-century BC scholar Varro, as well as indicated by epigraphic evidence.

The Neptunalia was an obscure archaic two-day festival in honour of Neptune as god of waters, celebrated at Rome in the heat and drought of summer, probably July 23 ( Varro, De lingua Latina vi. 19 ).

Falacer, or more fully dīvus pater falacer, was an ancient Italian god, according to Varro.

Varro, who was in command on the first day, was a man of reckless and hubristic nature, and was determined to defeat Hannibal.

* August 2 – The Battle of Cannae ( east of Naples ) ends in victory for Hannibal whose 40, 000-man army defeats a Roman force of 70, 000 led by consuls Lucius Aemilius Paullus ( who is killed in the battle ) and Gaius Terentius Varro.

According to Marcus Terrentius Varro, the gens Salentini descended from Idomeneus, who had sailed from Crete to Illyria, and then together with Illyrians and Locrians from Illyria to Salento, see Grecìa Salentina.

Varro lists Luna among twelve deities who are vital to agriculture, as does Vergil in a different list of twelve, in which he refers to Luna and Sol as clarissima mundi lumina, the world's clearest sources of light.

The Late Republican scholar Varro lists him as one of the twelve deities who presided over agriculture, paired with Lympha, the goddess who influenced the water supply.

" Varro ( 1st century BC ) said that enixae was the term for women in labor brought about by the Nixae, who oversee the types of religious practices that pertain to those giving birth.

Varro, who was himself Sabine, placed the Novensides in his much-noted catalogue of Sabine deities.

" Macrobius reports the theological view of Varro that " those who dig out truth more diligently have said that the Penates are those through whom we breathe in our inner core ( penitus ), through whom we have a body, through whom we possess a rational mind.

There are two small temples above the falls, the rotunda traditionally associated with Vesta and the rectangular one with the Sibyl of Tibur, whom Varro calls Albunea, the water nymph who was worshipped on the banks of the Anio as a tenth Sibyl added to the nine mentioned by the Greek writers.

Varro lacked the powerful descendants that Paullus had: descendants who were willing and able to protect his reputation — most notably, Paullus was the grandfather of Scipio Aemilianus, the patron of Polybius.

Consul Varro, who was in command on the first day, is presented by ancient sources as a man of reckless nature and hubris, and was determined to defeat Hannibal.

The epithet Ποπάνων ( Popanōn ) is attested only by Lydus, who cites Varro as stating that on the day of the kalendae he was offered a cake which earned him this title.

Ovid, however, dated the start of the ( mythikón ) period to the reign of Inachus, who he dated 400 or so years after the flood of Ogyges, meaning around 1900 – 1700 BC, but agreed with Varro that the mythikón ended during the first Olympiad ( 776 BC ).

X. 1. 95 ), Varro was recognized as an important source by many other ancient authors, among them Cicero, Pliny the Elder, Virgil in the Georgics, Columella, Aulus Gellius, Macrobius, Augustine, and Vitruvius, who credits him ( VII. Intr. 14 ) with a book on architecture.

35 BC ) was an early Roman poet, more polished than the more famous and learned Varro Reatinus, his contemporary, and more widely read by the Augustans, who apparently dared not mention the other Varro's name.

* Sementivae, a festival of sowing honoring Tellus and Ceres, placed on January 24 – 26 by Ovid, who regards these feriae as the same as Paganalia ; Varro may indicate that the two were separate festivals.

The campaign was led by Marcus Terentius Varro, who then founded the Roman colony of Augusta Praetoria Salassorum, housing 3, 000 retired veterans.

He was a relative by marriage of Gaius Terentius Varro, and actively supported his candidacy for the consulship against the senatorial elite ( patres ) who objected to Varro's humble origins.

The traditional chronology, as codified by Varro, allots 243 years for their reigns, an average of almost 35 years, which, since the work of Barthold Georg Niebuhr, has been generally discounted by modern scholarship.

But at the entry to the sanctuary, which has been thoroughly excavated, the Roman antiquary Varro learned that there had been twin pillars of brass.

But at the entry to the sanctuary, which has been thoroughly excavated, the Roman antiquary Varro learned that there had been twin pillars of brass, phallic hermae, and that in the sanctuary it was understood that the child of the Goddess, Cadmilus, was in some mystic sense also her consort.

The traditional account puts Varro in command on the day of the battle, and much of the blame for the defeat has been laid on his shoulders.

Not a little of the laborious erudition of Varro and other ancient scholars has survived in his pages.

His De Re Rustica in twelve volumes has been completely preserved and forms an important source on Roman agriculture, together with the works of Cato the Elder and Varro, both of which he occasionally cites.

The agricultural writings of Palladius may be compared to those of Marcus Priscus Cato, Marcus Terentius Varro and particularly Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella, whose De re rustica appears to have served as a model for Palladius, to such an extent that the Opus agriculturae has been described as an " abridgement " of Columella.

" Settefinestre has been taken as an example of how the advice of Roman agricultural writers like Columella and Varro were put into practice.

Varro spoke of the initiatory mystery and power of Roman regality ( adytum et initia regis ), inaccessible to the exoteric communality.