Aulus Terentius Varro, an envoy (
legatus) of
Aulus Cornelius Mammula, who was stationed with troops as
propraetor in Greece, in 190–189. Along with
Marcus Claudius Lepidus, Varro was sent to the
Senate to deliver "disturbing reports" from Asia.[1] In 189, he returned to Greece with envoys from
Aetolia.[2] In 184, he was assigned to
Hispania Citerior ("Nearer"
Roman Spain) as
praetor, and levied a new army with which he successfully fought the
Suessetani. He continued his command as propraetor in 183–182, with victories over the
Ausetani and
Celtiberi.[3] In 182, he may have held
proconsular powers, and upon his return to Rome that year celebrated an ovatio.[4] In 172, Varro was part of a diplomatic embassy to
Gentius, king of
Ilyria, that lodged a protest against attacks on Roman allies.[5] In 167, he was among the ten legates known to have been assigned by the Senate to assist the imperatorLucius Aemilius Paullus in organizing
Macedonia as a
Roman province.[6] Either he or the A. Terentius Varro who was a legate in 82 BC was honored with a statue by the
Delians.[7]
Terentius Varro, conjectured name of a
monetalis whose coinage, issued sometime in the period 150 to 133 BC, named him as VARO.[9]
Aulus Terentius Varro, one of the ten legates known to have been sent by the Senate in 146 to assist the consul
Lucius Mummius in reorganizing
Greece under Roman rule. They returned in the spring of 145.[10]
Aulus Terentius Varro, a lieutenant (legatus) in 82 BC under Lucius Licinius Murena as propraetor in Asia. He was prosecuted twice for extortion while in Asia, but was represented by
Quintus Hortensius and acquitted.[11]
Terentius Varro, possibly a praetor in 78 BC, if he is correctly identified as the governor of
Asia in 77. He is otherwise unknown, and this
promagistrate of Asia may instead have been the Aulus Terentius Varro who was Murena's legate and tried for extortion.[12]