# Marcus Terentius Varro

> Rome's greatest scholar wrote more books than almost anyone in antiquity - and nearly all of them vanished. What survives is fragments, quotations in other writers, and the ghost of an encyclopedic mind that tried to catalog everything Rome knew.

*Roman scholar, polymath and author (116-27 BC)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Academic ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Academics
- **Country:** Italy
- **Born:** -116
- **Died:** -27
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Marcus Terentius Varro was born in 116 BC and lived through the collapse of the Republic into the early years of the Empire. A polymath who ranged across grammar, agriculture, philosophy, history, and religion, he produced a staggering volume of work - later writers counted hundreds of volumes. Petrarch would call him "the third great light of Rome," ranked behind only Virgil and Cicero. To separate him from a younger contemporary also named Varro, he's sometimes called Varro Reatinus, after the town of Rieti. He died in 27 BC, having outlasted the Republic he'd spent a lifetime documenting.

## Fame
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- **Profile completeness:** 70.0 / 100

## Topics
#Writers, #Writer / Author, #Literature, #Poetry, #Philosophy, #History, #Ancient History

## Sources
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- [Marco Terenzio Varrone](https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_Terenzio_Varrone)
- [馬庫斯·特倫提烏斯·瓦羅](https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%A6%AC%E5%BA%AB%E6%96%AF%C2%B7%E7%89%B9%E5%80%AB%E6%8F%90%E7%83%8F%E6%96%AF%C2%B7%E7%93%A6%E7%BE%85)
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- [Марк Теренций Варрон](https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA_%D0%A2%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%86%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%92%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BD)
- [Marek Terencjusz Warron](https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marek_Terencjusz_Warron)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q206119)
- [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Terentius_Varro)
- [Pantheon 2.0](https://pantheon.world/profile/person/Marcus%20Terentius%20Varro)
- [Marcus Terentius Varro](https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Terentius_Varro)
- [Marc Terenci Varró](https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Terenci_Varr%C3%B3)
- [Marcus Terentius Varro Reatinus](https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Terentius_Varro_Reatinus)
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- [Marko Terencio Varono](https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marko_Terencio_Varono)
- [Varrón](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varr%C3%B3n)
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- [Terentius Varro](https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terentius_Varro)
- [Varron (écrivain)](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varron_(%C3%A9crivain))
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- [מרקוס טרנטיוס וארו](https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%A8%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%A1_%D7%98%D7%A8%D7%A0%D7%98%D7%99%D7%95%D7%A1_%D7%95%D7%90%D7%A8%D7%95)
- [Marko Terencije Varon](https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marko_Terencije_Varon)
- [Wikiquote](https://ca.wikiquote.org/wiki/Marc_Terenci_Varr%C3%B3)
- [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Marcus_Terentius_Varro)
- [Wikiquote](https://es.wikiquote.org/wiki/Varr%C3%B3n)

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