Publius Varinius

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Publius Varinius was a Roman praetor in 73 BC and proconsul in 72 BC and suffered several defeats against Spartacus' rebellious slaves during the Third Servile War.

[edit] Selected ancient sources

  • Sallust, Histories 3.95-98 Maurenbrecher.
  • Frontinus, Strategemata 1.5.22.
  • Plutarch, Crassus 9.4-6.
  • Appian, Civil Wars 1.116 [1].
  • Florus, Epitome 2.8.5 (Varinius is the unnamed general whose camp was attacked)
  • Some of these sources are available in English translation from the Internet Ancient History Sourcebook (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/3slaverevolttexts.htm).

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Appian conflates the names of Varinius and Claudius Glaber, writing Varinios Glabros, not Varinius Faber, as in the Ancient Sourcebook translation.

[edit] Bibliography

  • Bradley, Keith. Slavery and Rebellion in the Roman World. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989, pp. 95-96. ISBN 0253312590
  • Broughton, T. Robert S. "Magistrates of the Roman Republic." Vol. 2. Cleveland: Case Western University Press, 1968, p. 110 & 119.
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