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The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Varro Atacinus (c. 82–c. 37)

Varro, Publius Terentius, surnamed Atacinus from Atax in Narbonese Gaul, his birthplace. A Roman poet; born about 82 B.C.; died about 37 B.C. His works, of which but small fragments remain, are: ‘The Sequanian War,’ an epic celebrating the exploits of Cæsar in Gaul; some ‘Satires,’ of which Horace speaks slightingly; ‘The Argonauts,’ an epic in imitation of Apollonius Rhodius, highly praised by Ovid; a number of other imitations of Greek poets, among them ‘Chorography,’ a didactic poem on geography, and ‘Ephemeris,’ a poem on weather prognostics.