MARCUS TERENTIUS VARRO

MARCUS TERENTIUS VARRO (116-27 B.C.), "the most learned of the Romans," wrote a number of works both in prose and verse, of which only fragments remain, but enough to prove the greatness of the loss; was the friend of Pompey, then Cæsar, then Cicero, but survived the strife of the time and spent his leisure afterwards in literary labours.