Varro defines Jupiter as the god who has potestas ( power ) over the forces by which anything happens in the world.

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 )".

* 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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

During Virgil's time Aeneas was well-known and various versions of his adventures were circulating in Rome, including Roman Antiquities by Greek historian Dionysius of Halicarnassus ( relying on Marcus Terentius Varro, Ab Urbe Condita by Livy ( probably dependent on Quintus Fabius Pictor, fl.

The traditional date for the founding of Rome of 21 April 753 BC, was initiated by Varro.

Although there were earlier works of similar nature, by Marcus Terentius Varro for example, Pliny's was the only one to survive the Dark Ages.

Shortly after Fabius had laid down his Dictatorship, Gaius Terentius Varro, was elected Consul.

The most learned writer of the period was Varro.

Ancient Romans, such as Pliny the Elder ( Natural History, 3. 5 ) and Varro ( cited by Pliny ), speculated that the name Lusitania was of Roman origin, as when Pliny says lusum enim liberi patris aut lyssam cum eo bacchantium nomen dedisse lusitaniae et pana praefectum eius universae: that Lusitania takes its name from the lusus associated with Bacchus and the lyssa of his Bacchantes, and that Pan is its governor.

Suetonius attributes the loss of the imperial favour to Maecenas ' having indiscreetly revealed to Terentia, his beautiful but difficult wife, the discovery of the conspiracy in which her brother Lucius Lucinius Varro Murena was implicated, but according to Dio Cassius it was due to the emperor's relations with Terentia.

However, the earliest known idea to indicate the possibility of diseases spreading by yet unseen organisms was that of the Roman scholar Marcus Terentius Varro in a 1st century BC book titled On Agriculture in which he warns against locating a homestead near swamps:

Pecorino Romano cheese, whose method of production was first described by Latin authors like Varro and Pliny the Elder about 2, 000 years ago, was first created in the countryside around Rome.

At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Augustus and Varro ( or, less frequently, year 731 Ab urbe condita ).

At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Cethegus and Varro ( or, less frequently, year 777 Ab urbe condita ).

Finally, under the Roman Empire, the date suggested by Marcus Terentius Varro, 753 BC, was agreed upon, but in the Fasti Capitolini the year given was 752.

Varro was acquainted with the libri pontificum (" books of the Pontiffs ") and their archaic classifications.

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.

In response to the first threat, Rome's best general, Lucius Licinius Lucullus ( consul in 74 BC ), was sent to defeat Mithridates, followed shortly by his brother Varro Lucullus ( consul in 73 BC ).

Set by Varro, this was the most common date used.

At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Varro and Paullus ( or, less frequently, year 538 Ab urbe condita ).

" And since in practically all the temples where Serapis and Isis were worshiped there was also a figure that seemed to enjoin silence by a finger pressed against its lips, Varro thinks this had the same meaning, that no mention should be made of their having been human beings "

When Pompey was granted Hispania ( Iberia, comprising modern Spain and Portugal ) as a proconsular province, Afranius, together with Marcus Petreius and Marcus Terentius Varro, governed in his stead, Pompey remaining in Rome to manage affairs there.