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==Writings== Only fragments of his works survive. His first known works are {{Lang|la|Bellum sequanicum}},<ref name=Rose>H. J. Rose, ''A Handbook of Latin Literature'' (London 1967) p. 146</ref> a poem on [[Julius Caesar]]'s campaign against [[Ariovistus]], and some satires; these should not be confused with the ''Menippean Satires'' of the other Varro, of which some 600 fragments survive. He also wrote a geographical poem, ''Chorographia'';<ref name=EB1911/> ''Ephemeris'', a hexameter poem on weather-signs after Aratus, from which Virgil has borrowed<ref name=EB1911/> and (late in life) elegies to Leucadia.<ref name=Rose/> His translation of the Alexandrian poet [[Apollonius of Rhodes|Apollonius Rhodius]]' ''Argonautica'' into [[Latin]] has some fine surviving lines;<ref name=Rose/> and was singled out for praise by [[Ovid]]: “Of Varro too what age will not be told/And Jason’s Argo and the fleece of gold?”.<ref>A. D. Melville, trans., ''Ovid: The Love Poems'' (OUP 2008) p. 27 and p. 188</ref> [[Oskar Seyffert (classical scholar)|Oskar Seyffert]] considered that the poem to have been “the most remarkable production in the domain of narrative epic poetry between the time of Ennius and that of Vergil”.<ref>O. Seyffert, ''A Dictionary of Classical Antiquities'' (London 1892) p. 619</ref> Of Varro's fragments, the [[epigram]] on "The Tombs of the Great" is well-known; whether or not it is truly Varro's is debatable: {{Verse translation| {{lang|la|Marmoreo Licinus tumulo iacet, at [[Cato the Younger|Cato]] nullo, [[Pompey|Pompeius]] paruo: credimus esse deos?}} | In a marble tomb [the freedman] Licinus lies; yet Cato lies in none and Pompey in but a small: Do we believe there are gods?}}
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