Jabarkan Latar belakang dari Publius Quinctilius Varus

Varus terlahir dengan latar belakang gens Quinctilia. Walaupun ia terlahir sebagai seorang patrician, keluarganya bukanlah keluarga yang kaya.

Rome's Greatest Defeat: Massacre in the Teutoburg Forest (Hardcover) by Adrian Murdoch, Hardcover: 256 pages, Publisher: Sutton Publishing (June 14, 2006), ,

B. Severy, Augustus and the Family at the Birth of the Roman Empire, Routledge, 2004

The Battle That Stopped Rome: Emperor Augustus, Arminius, and the Slaughter of the Legions in the Teutoburg Forest  by Peter S. Wells, W. W. Norton & Company, October 2003, ,

A Roman Encyclopedia by Matthew Bunson, 1995 Oxford Paperback Reference

R. Syme, The Augustan Aristocracy, Oxford University Press, 1989

Compendium of Roman History (Res gestae divi Augusti) by Velleius Paterculus, Harvard University Press; 1924. Brief mention of the Varus Disaster by the author, who was serving as a staff officer with Tiberius in Pannonia at the time.

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon, Modern Library

Annals by Tacitus (various editions). Summarizes reports of later Romans who found the battlefield.

The Twelve Caesars, Suetonius, translated by Robert Graves, 1957, Penguin Books; Also available from Project Gutenberg: The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete