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Varro (M. Terentius), 116-27 BCE, of Reate, renowned for his vast
learning, was an antiquarian, historian, philologist, student of
science, agriculturist, and poet. He was a republican who was
reconciled to Julius Caesar and was marked out by him to supervise
an intended national library.
Of Varro's more than seventy works involving hundreds of volumes
we have only his treatise On Agriculture (in Loeb number 283) and
part of his monumental achievement "De Lingua Latina," On the Latin
Language, a work typical of its author's interest not only in
antiquarian matters but also in the collection of scientific facts.
Originally it consisted of twenty-five books in three parts:
etymology of Latin words (books 1-7); their inflexions and other
changes (books 8-13); and syntax (books 14-25). Of the whole work
survive (somewhat imperfectly) books 5 to 10. These are from the
section (books 4-6) which applied etymology to words of time and
place and to poetic expressions; the section (books 7-9) on analogy
as it occurs in word formation; and the section (books 10-12) which
applied analogy to word derivation. Varro's work contains much that
is of very great value to the study of the Latin language.
The Loeb Classical Library edition of "On the Latin Language"
is in two volumes.
Varro (M. Terentius), 116-27 BCE, of Reate, renowned for his vast
learning, was an antiquarian, historian, philologist, student of
science, agriculturist, and poet. He was a republican who was
reconciled to Julius Caesar and was marked out by him to supervise
an intended national library.
Of Varro's more than seventy works involving hundreds of volumes
we have only his treatise On Agriculture (in Loeb number 283) and
part of his monumental achievement "De Lingua Latina," On the Latin
Language, a work typical of its author's interest not only in
antiquarian matters but also in the collection of scientific facts.
Originally it consisted of twenty-five books in three parts:
etymology of Latin words (books 1-7); their inflexions and other
changes (books 8-13); and syntax (books 14-25). Of the whole work
survive (somewhat imperfectly) books 5 to 10. These are from the
section (books 4-6) which applied etymology to words of time and
place and to poetic expressions; the section (books 7-9) on analogy
as it occurs in word formation; and the section (books 10-12) which
applied analogy to word derivation. Varro's work contains much that
is of very great value to the study of the Latin language.
The Loeb Classical Library edition of "On the Latin Language"
is in two volumes.
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