The examples it includes to illustrate the rules preserve numerous fragments from Latin authors which would otherwise have been lost, including Ennius, Pacuvius, Accius, Lucilius, Cato and Varro.

The major Republican source on the pontiffs would have been the theological writings of Varro, which survive only in fragments preserved by later authors such as Aulus Gellius and Nonius Marcellus.

" Varro connects the word with pandere, " to open ," but also explains it by panem dare, " to give bread ," so that Empanda would be the goddess of bread or food.

During the second of these two days ( August 1 ), Hannibal, aware that Varro would be in command the following day, left his camp and offered battle.

Varro believed that when pressed hard by the Romans ' superior numbers, the Carthaginians would fall back onto the river and, with no room to manoeuver, would be cut down in panic.

Socrates would swear by dogs and Diogenes and Varro made less than respectful comments concerning the deities.

Varro also states that a vow was made that the Games would be repeated every hundred years, and another celebration did indeed take place in either 149 or 146 BC, at the time of the Third Punic War.

Varro may have used the consular list with its mistakes, and called the year of the first consuls " 245 ab urbe condita ", accepting the 244-year interval from Dionysius of Halicarnassus for the kings after the foundation of Rome.

In Rome the cult of Diana should have been almost as old as the city itself as Varro mentions her in the list of deities to whom king Titus Tatius vowed a shrine.

Unlike the losses that had been suffered by Minucius, a major loss by Varro had the potential to kill so many soldiers that Rome might have had no further resources with which to continue the war.

Varro may have used the consular list with its mistakes, calling the year of the first consuls " 245 a. u. c.

Various dates have been assigned to the event, including 9500 BCE ( Plato ), 2136 BCE ( Varro ), and 1796 BCE ( Africanus ).

" 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.

However, his low origins seem to be exaggerated in the sources, and Varro may have been made a scapegoat by the aristocratic establishment.

To Varro, Hannibal seemed to have little room to manoeuver and no means of retreat as he was deployed with the Aufidus River to his rear.

Agatharchides, Dionysius of Halicarnassus ( De compositione verborum 18 ) and Cicero all speak of him in disparaging terms, although Varro seems to have approved of his work.

On the other hand, men of the country areas around Rome in the time of Varro seem not to have shaved except when they came to market every eighth day, so that their usual appearance was most likely a short stubble.

Varro, Cicero, and Horace, all men of letters during the subsequent Classical Latin period, considered Livius Andronicus to have been the originator of Latin literature.

Fragments 1 and 3 of the hymn have been preserved by Marcus Terentius Varro in his De Lingua Latina, 7. 26, 27, and fragment 2 by Quintus Terentius Scaurus in his De orthographia.

Balneae and balineae, which according to Varro have no singular number, were the public baths.

Varro mentions him as a king of Rome who enlarged the city and established certain cults, but he may just have been the eponym of the tribe Titiae, or even an invention to serve as a precedent for collegial magistracy.

# Therefore not only all poets, but even all historians and all writers on ancient matters, who have published for posterity his deeds done in Italy, agree he was a man: in Greek, Diodorus and Thallus, and in Latin, Nepos and Cassius and Varro.

The statement of Pomponius Porphyrion, the old commentator on Horace, that Florus himself wrote satires, is probably erroneous, but he may have edited selections from the earlier satirists ( Ennius, Lucilius, Varro ).

Therefore, if Terentia was indeed the daughter of a Varro, Cicero's links to this family may have influenced his marriage to Terentia.

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.

: Gnaeus Tremellius Scrofa, an important Roman agronomist and author of the Augustan period, whose writings have not survived, but are known to us from scant passages in the De re rustica of Columella ; he appears as a character in the similarly titled work by Varro.

Centuries later, the Greek historian Dionysius of Halicarnassus in his Rhomaike Archaiologia ( Antiquitates romanae, " Roman Antiquities "), quoting Antioch of Syracuse states that Italus was an Oenotrian by birth and retells this account that Italia was named after him, alongside the other account that Italia derives its name from a word for calf, an etymology also stated by Timaeus, Varro ( Rerum Rusticarum, 2. 5 ), and Festus.

A fourth method used colors of the water and figures appearing in it by which Varro stated that many prognostications were made concerning the Mithridatic War.

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.

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

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.