Varro

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

Varro, ōnis, m., a surname in the gens Terentia, e. g.

I M. Terentius Varro, a contemporary of Cicero , who wrote De Re Rusticā and De Linguā Latinā.—

II The poet P. Terentius Varro Atacinus, Hor. S. 1, 10, 46.—

III The consul C. Terentius Varro, defeated at Cannae , Liv. 22, 34, 2.

IV —Hence, Varrōnĭānus , a, um, adj., of or belonging to a Varro , Varronian : milites, i. e. of the consul C. Terentius Varro , Liv. 23, 38, 9: ingenia, of M. Terentius Varro , Fulg. Myth. 1 praef.: comoediae, the collection of the twenty-one genuine comedies of Plautus , arranged by M. Terentius Varro , Gell. 3, 3, 3.