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Marcus Terentius Varro
Varro
Marcus Terentius Varro (116-27 BC), the most prolific Roman scholar, called by Seneca 'the most learned of the Romans.'
Reading notes
- The Pumpkinification of the Divine Claudius §8 Varro
Marcus Terentius Varro (116–27 BC), Rome's most learned antiquarian, cited for the Stoic image of a headless spherical god.
- Consolation to His Mother Helvia §8 Varro
Rome's great polymath scholar; Seneca cites his consolation for exile — that we everywhere meet the same nature of things.
- Natural Questions §5.16.3 Varro
Marcus Terentius Varro (116–27 BC), Rome's great polymath antiquarian; cited here for his twelvefold scheme of the winds.