"Varro" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... not that which the Romans had hitherto employed, and they became more impatient as days and months passed without an effort to drive this eating ulcer from their plains. In time the discontent grew too strong to be ignored. A man of business, who was said to have begun life as a butcher's son, Varro by name, became the favorite leader of the populace, and was in time raised to the consulship. He enlisted a powerful army, ninety thousand strong, and marched away to the field of Cannae, where Hannibal ...
— Historic Tales, Volume 11 (of 15) - The Romance of Reality • Charles Morris
... { phases of Philosophy taught by the Academy. It } The { has been altered, and we have only a part of } B.C. 45. Academica. { the first book of the altered portion and the } AEtat. 62. { second part of the treatise before it was } { altered. In its altered form it is addressed } { to Varro.[b] } ...
— The Life of Cicero - Volume II. • Anthony Trollope |
