Varus

Family: Roman · Role: general · First appears: Annals I (16)

Life events

• Arminius’s sudden violence caused Varus to fall.(Annals I (16))
  • With: Arminius
  • “But by his own fate, and the sudden violence of Arminius, Varus fell.”
• Varus captured the Interamna garrison, killing resistance and receiving the majority’s surrender.(Histories III.61-65 · 📍 Interamna)
  • “Varus was promptly sent off with a light marching force, and the few who offered resistance were killed. The majority threw away their arms and begged for quarter.”

Annals I (16)

• enemies with Arminius “But by his own fate, and the sudden violence of Arminius, Varus fell.”

Histories III.61-65

• protégé: Vitellius “During these days Antonius and Varus kept sending messages to Vitellius, in which they offered him his life, a gift of money, and the choice of a safe retreat in Campania, if he would stop the war and surrender himself and his children to Vespasian.”
• enemies with Vitellius “During these days Antonius and Varus kept sending messages to Vitellius, in which they offered him his life, a gift of money, and the choice of a safe retreat in Campania, if he would stop the war and surrender himself and his children to Vespasian.”

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Extracted from the original text of Tacitus — The Histories & The Annals (Books I-VI) & Agricola. Made with Rho MD.