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753 BC (search for this): entry varro-m-terentius-bio-1
ased. In the Human Antiquities he discussed the creation of man, his bodily frame, and all matters connected with his physical constitution. He then passed on to take a survey of ancient Italy, the geographical distribution of the country, the different tribes by which it was inhabited, their origin and fortunes. The legends regarding the arrival of Aeneas served as an introduction to the early history and chronology of Rome, in which he determined the era for the foundation of the city (B. C. 753), which usually passes by his name, and as he advanced gave a view of the political institutions and social habits of His countrymen from the earliest times. The Divine Antiquities, with whose general plan and contents we are, comparatively speaking, familiar, since Augustine drew very largely from this source in his " City of God," comprehended a complete account of the mythology and rites of the inhabitants of Italy from the most remote epoch, including a description of the ministers o
116 BC (search for this): entry varro-m-terentius-bio-1
Varro, M. Tere'ntius whose vast and varied erudition in almost every department of literature earned for him the title of the " most learned of the Romans" (Quint. Inst. 10.1.95 ; Cic. Ac. 1.2, 3; Augustin. de Civ. Dei, 6.2), was born B. C. 116, being exactly ten years senior to Cicero, with whom he lived for a long period on terms of close intimacy and warm friendship. (Cic. Fam. 9.1-8.) He was trained under the superintendence of L. Aelius Stilo Praeconinus, a member of the equestrian order, a man, we are told (Cic. Brut. 56), of high character, familiarly acquainted with the Greek and Latin writers in general, and especially deeply versed in the antiquities of his own country, some of which, such as the hymns of the Salii and the Laws of the Twelve Tables, he illustrated by commentaries. Varro, having imbibed from this preceptor a taste for these pursuits, which he cultivated in after life with so much devotion and success, completed his education by attending the lectures of Anti
46 BC (search for this): entry varro-m-terentius-bio-1
om the ignorance of transcribers, and partly from the ravages of time. This work, judging from sundry repetitions and contradictions which may be here and there detected, and from the general want of polish, was never finally revised by the author; and may perhaps, as Müller conjectures, never have been published under his sanction. We gather from Cicero (Cic. Att. 13.12, Acad. 1.1 ) and from internal evidence (5.100, 6.13, 22, ed. Müller) that it must have been in progress during the years B. C. 46-45, and must have been finished before the death of the orator, to whom the last twenty hooks are inscribed (5.1, 6.97, 7.109, 110). It was portioned out into three great divisions. (I.) De Impositione Vocabulorum, the origin of words and terms, formed the subject of the first seven books. The first was introductory and treated of the history of the Latin language (De Origine Linguae Latinae. See Priscian, 1.7). The second, third, and fourth of etymology considered as a science (De Etymol
45 BC (search for this): entry varro-m-terentius-bio-1
ignorance of transcribers, and partly from the ravages of time. This work, judging from sundry repetitions and contradictions which may be here and there detected, and from the general want of polish, was never finally revised by the author; and may perhaps, as Müller conjectures, never have been published under his sanction. We gather from Cicero (Cic. Att. 13.12, Acad. 1.1 ) and from internal evidence (5.100, 6.13, 22, ed. Müller) that it must have been in progress during the years B. C. 46-45, and must have been finished before the death of the orator, to whom the last twenty hooks are inscribed (5.1, 6.97, 7.109, 110). It was portioned out into three great divisions. (I.) De Impositione Vocabulorum, the origin of words and terms, formed the subject of the first seven books. The first was introductory and treated of the history of the Latin language (De Origine Linguae Latinae. See Priscian, 1.7). The second, third, and fourth of etymology considered as a science (De Etymologica
28 BC (search for this): entry varro-m-terentius-bio-1
of seventy years old, his name appeared along with that of Cicero upon the list of the proscribed, but more fortunate than his friend he succeeded in making his escape, and, after having remained for some time concealed (Appian, B. C. iv 47), in securing the protection of Octavianus. The remainder of his career was passed in tranquillity, and be continued to labour in his favourite studies, although his magnificent library had been destroyed, a loss to him irreparable. His death took place B. C. 28, when he was in his eighty-ninth year (Plin. Nat. 29.4; Hieronym. in Euseb. Chron. Olymp. 188. 1). It is to be observed that M. Terentius Varro, in consequence of his having possessed extensive estates in the vicinity of Reate, is styled Reatinus by Symmachus (Ep. i.), and probably by Sidonius Apollinaris also (Ep. 4.32), a designation which has been very frequently adopted by later writers in order to distinguish him from Varro Atacinus. Works Not only was Varro the most learned of Roma