What is Marcus Terentius Varro?
[[Image:Marco Terenzio Varrone.jpg|thumb|Marcus Terentius Varro]] '''Marcus Terentius Varro Reatinus''' (116 – 27 BC) was a [[Ancient Rome|Roman]] writer. He wrote many books, but only one work survives completely - ''Three books on Agriculture''. In this work, he describes farming in Roman times. Scholars say this book has a little [[microbiology]] and [[epidemiology]]. Varro warned his contemporaries to stay away from swamps and marshes: <blockquote>...there are bred certain minute creatures which cannot be seen by the eyes, but which float in the air and enter the body through the mouth and nose and cause serious diseases.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Varro |first=Marcus Terentius |year=2014 |orig-year=1934 |title=De Re Rustica |url=http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Varro/de_Re_Rustica/1*.html#12.2 |publisher=Loeb Classical Library |at=I.12.2 |via=Bill Thayer's Website}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Thompson |first=Sue |date=March 2014 |title=From Ground to Tap |url=http://mag.digitalpc.co.uk/fvx/rsc/themole/1403/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141012012410/http://www.rsc.org/eic/sites/default/files/The-Mole-March-2014-corrected.pdf |archive-date=12 October 2014 |journal=The Mole |page=3 (sidebar) |access-date=August 21, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Hempelmann |first1=Ernst |last2=Krafts |first2=Kristine |date=October 2013 |title=Bad Air, Amulets and Mosquitoes: 2,000 Years of Changing Perspectives on Malaria |journal=Malaria Journal |volume=12 |page=232 |doi=10.1186/1475-2875-12-232 |doi-access=free |pmid=23835014 |pmc=3723432 |issn=1475-2875 }}</ref></blockquote> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Varro, Marcus Terentius}} [[Category:110s BC births]] [[Category:20s BC deaths]] [[Category:Ancient Roman writers]] [[Category:2nd-century BC writers]] [[Category:1st-century BC writers]]