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 close relationship with Latin and Faliscan cannot be ruled out: Varro states that Sicel language was strictly allied to Latin as many words sounded almost identical and had the same meaning, such as oncia, lytra, moeton ( Lat.

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.

Pliny states that Pasiteles worked in marble, silver, ivory, and bronze and, according to his contemporary Varro, never made a statue without first making a clay model.

Sancus was considered the son of Iupiter, an opinion recorded by Varro and attributed to his teacher Aelius Stilo.

Even Varro, though schooled in the Stoicism of Aelius Stilo and in skeptical Antiochean Platonism, requested a Pythagorean funeral for himself.

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.

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.

The 1999 Star Trek: Voyager episode " The Disease " features a generation ship of a species called the Varro.

This spring is called Lautolae by Varro.

He is sometimes called Varro Reatinus to distinguish him from his younger contemporary Varro Atacinus.

According to Varro, it was so-called because it was held on the fifth ( quinqu -) day after the Ides, in the same way as the Tusculans called a festival on the sixth day after the Ides Sexatrus or one on the seventh Septimatrus.

This single encyclopedic work, De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii (" On the Marriage of Philology and Mercury "), sometimes called De septem disciplinis (" On the seven disciplines ") or the Satyricon, is an elaborate didactic allegory written in a mixture of prose and elaborately allusive verse, a prosimetrum in the manner of the Menippean satires of Varro.

This forum is called piscatorium in Livy, and piscarium in Varro and Plautus ( Curc.

Varroville was originally a farm called Varro Ville.

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 )".

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.

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 ).

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.

The ancient grammarian Varro derived the name from nuptus i. e. covering ( opertio ), with a more or less explicit allusion to the nuptiae, marriage of Heaven and Earth.

The sibyls of Antiquity were increased to ten in Lactantius ' Divine Institutions ( i. 6 ) a 4th century work quoting from a lost work of Varro, ( 1st century BCE ).

* 216 BC – Second Punic War: Battle of Cannae – The Carthaginian army led by Hannibal defeats a numerically superior Roman army under command of consuls Lucius Aemilius Paullus and Gaius Terentius Varro.

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.

The ancient Latin writers Varro and Cicero considered the etymology of Dīāna as allied to that of dies and connected to the shine of the Moon.

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.

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.

Only a few educated Romans with antiquarian interests, such as Varro, could read Etruscan.

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

The rashness of Varro did not surprise Fabius, but when Fabius learned of the size of the army ( eighty-eight thousand soldiers ) that Varro had raised, he became quite concerned.

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.

Fabius had warned the other Consul for the year, Aemilius Paullus, to make sure that Varro remained unable to directly engage Hannibal.

When word reached Rome of the disastrous Roman defeat under Varro and Paullus at the Battle of Cannae, the Senate and the People of Rome turned to Fabius for guidance.

Once the Roman Senate resumed their consular elections in 216 BC, they appointed Gaius Terentius Varro and Lucius Aemilius Paullus as consuls.

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

Hannibal capitalized on the eagerness of Varro and drew him into a trap by using an envelopment tactic, which eliminated the Roman numerical advantage by shrinking the combat area.

The most learned writer of the period was Varro.

Pliny's description of the exposed portion of the tomb is intractable ; Pliny, it seems clear, had not observed this structure himself, but is quoting the historian and Roman antiquarian 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.

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.

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.

* Marcus Terentius Varro, Roman scholar ( b. 116 BC )