Sextus Quinctilius Varus

Sextus Quinctilius Varus was a Roman politician in the 5th century BC, consul in 453 BC.

Sextus Quinctilius Varus
Consul of the Roman Republic
In office
1 August 453 BC [1]  453 BC
Preceded byAulus Aternius Varus, Spurius Tarpeius Montanus Capitolinus
Succeeded bySpurius Furius Medullinus Fusus (consul 464 BC)
Personal details
BornUnknown
Ancient Rome
Died453 BC
Ancient Rome

Consulship

In 453 BC, he was consul with Publius Curiatius Fistus Trigeminus.[2] Rome was ravaged this year by a famine and an epidemic, which killed animals as well as people. It is thought to have been typhus, an epidemic that raged on for ten or more years.[3] His colleague, Trigeminus, and the consul suffect who replaced him both caught the disease that same year.[2][4]

References

  1. Robert Maxwell Ogilvie, Commentary on Livy, books 1–5, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1965, pp. 404, 405.
  2. Broughton 1951, p. 43.
  3. Livy, III. 32
  4. "LacusCurtius • Dionysius' Roman Antiquities — Book X Chapters 50‑60". Penelope.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 2020-01-20.


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