Marcus Varro

Family: Pompeian · Role: lieutenant · First appears: Julius Caesar 34

Life events

• Julius Caesar overwhelmed Pompey's army in Spain.(Julius Caesar 34 · 📍 Spain)
  • With: Julius Caesar Pompey Marcus Petreius Lucius Afranius
  • “yet in a short time he bore down all before him”
• Julius Caesar assigned Marcus Varro to collect and organize Greek and Latin works for public use.(Julius Caesar 44)
  • With: Julius Caesar
  • “the province of providing and putting them in proper order being assigned to Marcus Varro.”

Julius Caesar 34

• enemies with Julius Caesar “and then set out for Spain, in which province Pompey had a numerous army, under the command of three lieutenants, Marcus Petreius, Lucius Afranius, and Marcus Varro; declaring amongst his friends, before he set forward, ‘That he was going against an army without a general, and should return thence against a general without an army.’”
• employer: Pompey “in which province Pompey had a numerous army, under the command of three lieutenants, Marcus Petreius, Lucius Afranius, and Marcus Varro”

Julius Caesar 44

• employer: Julius Caesar (Caesar assigned Varro responsibility for collecting and arranging Greek and Latin works.) “the province of providing and putting them in proper order being assigned to Marcus Varro.”

Grammarians 23

• enemies with Remmius Palaemon “His insolence was such, that he called Marcus Varro ‘a hog;’”

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Extracted from the original text of The Lives of the Twelve Caesars. Made with Rho MD.