Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), V, V, Varus, Alfēnus

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Varus, Alfēnus

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A Roman jurist, the Alfenus vafer of Horace, was a native of Cremona, where he carried on the trade of a barber or a cobbler. Having come to Rome, he became a pupil of Servius Sulpicius, attained the dignity of the consulship, and was honoured with a public funeral.

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A general of Vitellius in the Civil War of A.D. 60.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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