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Antiquitates rerum humanarum et divinarum

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  • In Marcus Terentius Varro

    …the second part of his Antiquitates rerum humanarum et divinarum (“Antiquities of Human and Divine Things”). Under the second triumvirate Varro was outlawed by Mark Antony, and his books were burned, but his property was later restored by Augustus. He spent the rest of his life in study and writing.

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