Aulus Terentius Varro (Praetor)

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Aulus Terentius Varro was a politician and general of the Roman Republic of the early 2nd century BC who came from the plebeian family of the Terenti . 184-183 BC He fought successfully on the Iberian Peninsula .

Life

Aulus Terentius Varro may have been a son of the consul Gaius Terentius Varro , who lived in 216 BC. Took part in the devastating battle for the Romans at Cannae against Hannibal and was able to escape.

The first documented official activity of Aulus Terentius Varro is the escort, which he carried out in 189 BC. A delegation of the Aitolians from Rome , rejected by the Senate with their offer of peace, returned to their homeland. 184 BC He was elected praetor and had to administer Hispania citerior . According to an annalistic source , the Roman historian Titus Livius gives the troops available to him. In his province he remained victorious in the fight against the Iberian people of the Suessetans . With the (extended) empire he remained in the following year, 183 BC. BC on the Iberian Peninsula, but Livy calls him in his current office once a proconsul and elsewhere as a propaetor . In any case, he also succeeded in 183 BC. Successful battles, this time against the Celtiberians . Beginning of 182 BC His military activity in Spain ended and after his return to Rome he was rewarded with permission to celebrate a smaller triumph , an Ovatio .

For the later period only the services of the Varro have survived. According to a not exactly credible note from Livius, he was 172 BC. BC traveled with two other senators on a diplomatic mission to the court of the Illyrian king Genthios . After the Roman victory over the last Macedonian king Perseus , Varro was in 167 BC. Member of the ten-person commission that supported the successful consul of the previous year, Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus, in the reorganization of Macedonia. There is no news about his further living conditions.

literature

Remarks

  1. ↑ Friedrich Münzer : Terentius 80). In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume VA, 1, Stuttgart 1934, column 678.
  2. ↑ Titus Livius 37:49, 8.
  3. ↑ Livy 39, 32, 14; 39, 38, 3.
  4. ↑ Livy 39:38, 8-12.
  5. ↑ Livy 39, 42, 1.
  6. ↑ Livy 39, 45, 4.
  7. ↑ Livy 39, 56, 1 and 40, 2, 5.
  8. ↑ Livy 39, 56, 1.
  9. ^ Livy 40, 16, 7 and 40, 16, 11.
  10. ↑ Livy 42, 26, 7.
  11. ↑ Livy 45, 17, 3.
personal data
SURNAME Terentius Varro, Aulus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Varro, Aulus Terentius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman praetor 184 BC Chr.
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH after 167 BC Chr.