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Aulus Terentius Varro Murena
Aulus Terentius Varro Murena (died 24 BC) was a Roman general and politician of the 1st century BC. Biography Murena was the natural born son of Aulus Terentius Varro, and adopted brother to Lucius Licinius Varro Murena. He was well connected to the Augustan regime, with his sister, Terentia, married to Gaius Maecenas, the prominent adviser and friend of Augustus and patron of the arts, while his half-brother, Gaius Proculeius, was an intimate friend of Augustus during his rise to power. Augustus dispatched Murena to lead an expedition against the Salassi tribe of the Aosta Valley region in the northwestern Alps in 25 BC. The Salassi had proved troublesome to Roman armies using the Great St Bernard pass, which, as the shortest route from Italy to the Upper Rhine river, had become strategically vital to the Romans since the completion of Julius Caesar's conquest of Gaul in 51 BC. The Salassi were utterly defeated and, according to Strabo, Murena deported and sold into slave ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aulus Terentius Varro
The Terentii Varrones a branch of the ''Terentia gens, gens Terentia'' in ancient Rome. Members * Gaius Terentius Varro (d. sometime after 200 BC), the surviving commander of the defeated Roman army of the mid-Republic, Roman army at the Battle of Cannae. * Aulus Terentius Varro, an envoy ''(legatus)'' of Aulus Cornelius Mammula, who was stationed with troops as propraetor in Greece, in 190–189. Along with Marcus Claudius Lepidus, Varro was sent to the Roman senate, Senate to deliver "disturbing reports" from Asia. In 189, he returned to Greece with envoys from Aetolia. In 184, he was assigned to Hispania Citerior ("Nearer" Roman Spain) as praetor, and levied a new army with which he successfully fought the Suessetani. He continued his command as propraetor in 183–182, with victories over the Ausetani and Celtiberi. In 182, he may have held proconsular powers, and upon his return to Rome that year celebrated an ''ovatio''. In 172, Varro was part of a diplomatic embassy to Gentius ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |