Publius Quinctilius Varus (Cremona, 46 BC – Teutoburg Forest, AD 9) was a Roman general and politician under the first Roman emperor Augustus. Varus is generally remembered for having lost three Roman legions when ambushed by Germanic tribes led by Arminius in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, whereupon he killed himself.
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PubliusQuinctiliusVarus (Cremona, 46 BC – Teutoburg Forest, AD 9) was a Roman general and politician under the first Roman emperor Augustus. Varus is...
Roman legions led by PubliusQuinctiliusVarus and their auxiliaries. The alliance was led by Arminius, a Germanic officer of Varus's auxilia. Arminius had...
PubliusQuinctiliusVarus Minor (Minor in Latin means 'the younger') (AD 4 – AD 27) was a Roman senator. Varus was a member of the gens Quinctilia. He...
three Roman legions under the command of general and governor PubliusQuinctiliusVarus were destroyed. His victory at Teutoburg Forest precipitated the...
pacified by the Romans as well as being occupied by them, with PubliusQuinctiliusVarus being (unofficially) appointed as Germania's governor. In 12 BC...
Republic Publius Clodius Pulcher (c. 93 BC – 52 BC), Republican politician Publius Cornelius Scipio (died 211 BC), Roman consul PubliusQuinctiliusVarus (46...
successfully landed his forces near Utica, surprising Varus' army. One of Varus' officers, Sextus QuinctiliusVarus, who had been at Corfinium, appealed to Curio's...
and their auxiliaries, led by PubliusQuinctiliusVarus. The anti-Roman alliance was led by Arminius, an officer of Varus' auxiliary forces who had acquired...
Born into an undistinguished family, son of Publius Sulpicius Quirinus and paternal grandson of Publius Sulpicius Quirinius, from Gens Sulpicia, in the...
becomes tetrarch of Galilee and Perea. The governor of Syria, PubliusQuinctiliusVarus, marches down to Jerusalem from Antioch to restore order; around...
The Roman aquilae are lost and the Roman general and governor PubliusQuinctiliusVarus dies by suicide. Legio II Augusta, XX Valeria Victrix, and XIII...
Dalmatia continue the Great Illyrian Revolt against Roman rule. PubliusQuinctiliusVarus is appointed governor of Germania, charged with organizing Germania...
defeat is coupled by the historian Suetonius with the disaster of PubliusQuinctiliusVarus in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest. After capturing and crucifying...
Castra Vetera (Xanten). In AD 5, the provinces were pacified and PubliusQuinctiliusVarus was assigned governor and commander of the Germania army. On September...
Marcus QuinctiliusVarus was a consular tribune of the Roman Republic in 403 BC. Quinctilius belonged to the Quinctilia gens, an obscure gens of the Republic...
serving under PubliusQuinctiliusVarus, switched sides to the Germans, and led a coalition of Germanic tribes that defeated the legions of Varus at the Battle...
warned the Roman governor PubliusQuinctiliusVarus of the impending uprising of his countrymen, but he was not believed. Varus and his three legions subsequently...
Calpurnius Piso 4 BC: Revolt of Jews in Judea – revolt suppressed by PubliusQuinctiliusVarus 3–6: Revolt of the Gaetuli in Mauretania – revolt suppressed by...
surrounding the Germanic leader Arminius, who defeated the Romans under PubliusQuinctiliusVarus at the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest in AD 9, and his wife Thusnelda...