Varro

American  

[var-oh] / ˈvær oʊ /

noun

1. Marcus Terentius c116–27? b.c., Roman scholar and author.

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Varro British  

/ ˈværəʊ /

noun

1. Marcus Terentius (ˈmɑːkəs təˈrɛntɪəs). 116–27 _bc , Roman scholar and satirist

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Example Sentences

Celebrities attended the service, but their presence did little to change attitudes, said Szilvia Varro, an activist who helped organise the funeral.

From Reuters • Aug. 6, 2013

Celebrities attended the service, but their presence did little to change attitudes, said Szilvia Varro, an activist who helped organize the funeral.

From Reuters • Aug. 6, 2013

For a while everything went so well that Varro began to think his dangerous jest might even turn into safe reality.

From Time Magazine Archive

"It is just the reverse of everything we believe according to the basic principles of physiology," declares Professor Varro Tyler of Purdue University, an expert on herbal remedies.

From Time Magazine Archive

And Clearchus the Peripatetic philosopher, in his treatise on Proverbs, gives the saying, "Perfume thrown on lentils;" as a proverb which my grandfather Varro also mentions, he, I mean, who was nicknamed Menippius.

From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us