# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/marcus-terentius-varro
# Generated: 2026-08-31T14:41:06.273Z

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deathDate: "-27"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
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.