# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/publius-quinctilius-varus
# Generated: 2026-08-31T20:47:27.235Z

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name: "Publius Quinctilius Varus"
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description: "The Roman general who lost three entire legions in a single day. Varus walked into the Teutoburg Forest in AD 9 and never came out — the disaster ended Rome's expansion into Germania and bent the trajectory of European history."
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deathDate: "9"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Publius Quinctilius Varus rose through the ranks to serve Augustus, the founder of the Roman Empire, as both politician and general. In September AD 9, he led three legions into the Teutoburg Forest, where Germanic tribes under Arminius ambushed and annihilated them. Rather than face capture and execution, Varus took his own life on the field. The catastrophe dissuaded Rome from pushing further east of the Rhine, leaving the Germanic peoples beyond the empire's reach and preventing their Romanization — a rupture that shaped the cultural fault lines of Europe for centuries.