Next, all those who had the command of armies were continued in their offices, and ordered to remain in their provinces; Tiberius Gracchus at Luceria, where he was with an army of volunteer slaves; Caius Terentius Varro in the Picenian, and Manius Pomponius in the Gallic territory.

When they all fled precipitately, he himself also was carried away with the crowd, as had happened to Varro at the battle of Cannae, and to many other generals.

For these reasons Augustus, now in his ninth consulship with Marcus Silanus, sent Terentius Varro against the Salassi.

Walter Harte in his Essays on Husbandry (1764) says that Cato writes like an English squire and Varro like a French academician.

[Footnote 141: Aristotle (H.A. VI, 22) preceded Varro with this good advice, saying that a mare "produces better foals at the end of four or five years.

Virgil probably had also the advantage of personal contact with Varro during the seven years he was composing and polishing the Georgics.

p. 63, who considers the obaeratus of Varro as the equivalent of the addictus of the Roman law of debt.]