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Sextus Quinctilius Varus
Consul of the Roman Republic
In office
1 August 453 BC [1] – 453 BC
Preceded byAulus Aternius Varus,Spurius Tarpeius Montanus Capitolinus
Succeeded bySpurius Furius Medullinus Fusus (consul 464 BC)
Personal details
BornUnknown
Ancient Rome
Died453 BC
Ancient Rome

Sextus Quinctilius Varus, was a Roman politician in the 5th century BC, consul in 453 BC.

Consulship

In 453 BC, he was consul with Publius Curiatius Fistus Trigeminus.[2] Rome was ravaged this year by a famine and an epidemic, which killed animals as well as people. It is thought to have been typhus, an epidemic that raged on for ten or more years.[3] His colleague, Trigeminus, and the consul suffect that replaced him both caught the disease that same year.[2][4]

References

  1. ^ Robert Maxwell Ogilvie, Commentary on Livy, books 1–5, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1965, pp. 404, 405.
  2. ^ a b Broughton 1951, p. 43.
  3. ^ Livy, III. 32
  4. ^ "LacusCurtius • Dionysius' Roman Antiquities — Book X Chapters 50‑60". Penelope.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 2020-01-20.