Sextus Quintilius Varus

Also known as: Quintilius · Role: officer · First appears: The Civil War, Book II, 26–31

Life events

• Caesar freed Sextus Quintilius Varus, who then went over to Africa.(The Civil War, Book II, 26–31 · 📍 Corfinium)
  • With: Caesar
  • “When Caesar gave him his liberty, he went over to Africa;”

The Civil War, Book II, 26–31

• patron: Caesar “When Caesar gave him his liberty, he went over to Africa;”
• commander: Lucius Domitius “not to lose all recollection of the oath which they took first to Domitius and to him their quaestor”
• enemies with Caius Curio (Quintilius urges Curio's soldiers to turn against him.) “Quintilius, making this a pretext for addressing them, began to go round Curio's lines, and to entreat the soldiers ‘not to lose all recollection of the oath which they took first to Domitius and to him their quaestor, nor bear arms against those who had shared the same fortune, and endured the same hardships in a siege, nor fight for those by whom they had been opprobriously called deserters.’”

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Extracted from the original text of Caesar's Commentaries — The Gallic War and The Civil War. Made with Rho MD.