Talk:Publius Quinctilius Varus

message: Cassius Chaerea's participation in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest was ficiton created by R.Graves.  If you think otherwise, quote your source. Naerhu 04:45, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Cassius Chaerea

message: Edward Gibbon's account of the Battle of Teutoburg is Heavily out dated, Inaccurate and only used as a refence work to look at how historical opinion has change of Roman History.it maybe a great work of ancient History but you can't really cite it as your major source.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.204.191.52 (talk) 23:42, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Edward Gibbon

message: There is considerable confusion in this article about the dating of various events. "Later he went to govern Syria from 7/6 BC until BC" obviously has something missing. It appears that he was still there in 4 BC when Herod died and a revolt broke out in Judea but then we read "Following the governorship of Syria, Varus returned to Rome and remained there for the next few years. Between 10 BC to 6...." 6 what? BC or AD? Either will fit for it could be a 4 year campaign or a 16 year campaign.The same applies to "In 6, the region was declared pacified and Varus was appointed to govern," though it would appear from "In September 9, Varus was preparing..." that we are now talking AD which has not been mentioned.This dating needs tidying up to make proper sense.
Logical Analyst (talk) 12:18, 31 October 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Livius.org says that Varus went to Rome after 4BC, but gives no source. Jewish Encyclopedia and Josephus agree that he went to Antioch. Antipocalypse (talk) 21:55, 16 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dating 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: In the last sentence in this section, "Thus, the archaeological record seems to verify mass popular protest against Rome because of Varus' cruelty," the words "Thus" and "seems" suggest an editor's inference, not something in a source. "Seems" in particular is a weasel word. This sentence has no reference backing it up. Accordingly, I will leave it alone long enough for someone to dispute me here and then delete it.
Almost the entire paragraph looks like it relies on reference 17, "66 A.D. – The Last Revolt (DVD). History Channel." The History Channel is definitely not a RS. The whole paragraph, except its first sentence, is therefore questionable. In fact, it sounds very much like the sort of "embellishment" the History Channel is so fond of. I hesitate, though, to take out such a big chunk. If anyone has better information from a better source, please add it. Dgndenver (talk) 13:15, 7 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Political career 

message: Piet Hein, the creator of the Soma cube, also did a little poetry on the side -- writing small poems he called "grooks".  And one of them could be a popular-culture example here, though on that I defer to the page managers.  I can't get an indicated online source to confirm the text in my memory -- but the latter goes:
With a head that aches severely
and a sorely weeping eye,
I lie helplessly extended at full length;
And like old Augustus (nearly)
I beat my breast and cry:
"O virus, virus, give me back my strength!"
If I do find a source, I'll try to report in -- but I would also invite others to find it first.
jalp 209.209.81.56 (talk) 15:35, 10 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  A Relevant Grook