Sextus Quinctilius Varus (Quaestor)

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Sextus Quinctilius Varus was a Roman politician of the late Republic and the father of Publius Quinctilius Varus, known from the Battle of Varus .

He came from a patrician family and was at the outbreak of the civil war in 49 BC. As quaestor at the beginning of his senatorial career (cursus honorum) . Together with the proconsul Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus , he was captured in Corfinium by Gaius Iulius Caesar , but released again. Quinctilius Varus went with the former praetor Publius Attius Varus in 49 BC. In the province of Africa. There he tried to win back the soldiers who defected at Corfinium under Gaius Scribonius Curio for the party of Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus .

After Caesar's death, he joined the forces of the Caesar murderers . After the defeat at Philippi in 42 BC. He let himself be killed by a freed man.

A Varus mentioned in two of Catullus poems is probably a different person.

In addition to about 47/46 BC His son Publius Quinctilius Varus, born in the 4th century BC, left a daughter who was married to Lucius Nonius Asprenas .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Viktor Gardthausen : Augustus and his time. 1st part, 3rd volume. Teubner, Leipzig 1904, p. 1194 ( archive.org ).
  2. ^ Caesar, De bello civile 1, 23 .
  3. ↑ Caesar: De bello civile. 2, 28 .
  4. ^ Velleius Paterculus 2, 71, 3 . The identification with the quaestor of 49 BC Chr. Is not entirely certain, but it is widely believed. Since Velleius speaks of Varus' honores in the plural, he presumably held another office after the bursar; see. Thomas Robert Shannon Broughton : The magistrates of the Roman republic. Volume 3: Supplement. Scholars Press, Atlanta 1986, p. 177.
  5. ↑ Catullus: 10 and 22 .
personal data
SURNAME Quinctilius Varus, Sextus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Varus, Sextus Quinctilius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1st century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 42 BC Chr.