Talk:Marcus Terentius Varro

message: Do all the citation needed signs really need to be there?
Reciting common scholarly knowledge shouldn't have to be footnoted, university's don't require it!!
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I think you'll find that the citations are needed since the detailed lives of ancient figures are not just known by common knowledge but are usually found in a later writer's works, and those works should be cited. Furthermore, those who question the accuracy of Varro's chronolgy should be cited, just as those should be who support it, since Roman historiography is a much-debated topic. 
Finally, universities do require it, and you'll lose marks in a paper if you don't cite sources, and can even face accusations of plagiarism. This is true of all scholarly works! ste175
An observation in passing:  the article talks about how Varro found, under the rule of Augustus, the peace and security necessary to pursue his writing; but Varro's death date is cited as 27 BCE, the year that Augustus came to power. There's probably a perfectly good explanation and I haven't time to look it up, but somebody who does might address this problem.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.92.6.219 (talk) 11:13, 4 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I came here expecting just to pop in a link to the de Re Rustica now online at LacusCurtius, then go away; but found the article a mess, so spent some time fixing it. It needs more.
I agree with the first writer above; common scholarly knowledge need not be footnoted or marked "citation needed"; it just looks very dumb.
Several things were said twice; I tightened up the article to say them only once.
One item was said three times, and the one time it was attributed, it was attributed wrong: to "Cicero and Augustine"; it was said by Quintilian, and the reference is now in the article. The danger of people who haven't read an author building an encyclopedia article on secondary works about him! In fact, not one of the secondary sources quoted was worth keeping in there, because they were either wrong, or I could insert the primary citation directly in the text, as in the case of the microbiology item. The Britannica reference I removed on different grounds: if we're building an encyclopedia, why do we then send people off to another encyclopedia? (Question answers itself: because we know this one is not very good, and that one is — but let's be optimistic, folks.)
If some really wants to fix this, they should read the literature out there; can't do any harm to start by reading the Loeb intro to the R.R., onsite at Lacus. I do plan on putting the L.L. up as well, and it has its own Loeb intro, providing Wikipedia more stuff to pillage. Those of you with access to JSTOR could use the articles in the journals there. Bill 18:28, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Hear hear- "Pro" citations of all supposed 'common knowledge'- most esp. in literate/historic topics. Well presented Cynwolfe|t. #3 in the Wikipedia:Good article criteria, the principles of Broadness have precedence over principles of "Neutrality" at #4. "Neutrality" never prevents Broadness, but requires it. Hilarleo (talk) 23:01, 28 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Partial fix

message: I am very surprise this doesn't at all mention ab urbe condita I am trying to look for the date he determined 753 BC as Ab urbe condita and it doesn't even mention it! --RayqayzaDialgaWeird2210 16:03, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ab Urbe Condita 

message: Under the Extant works subsection this work is called Rerum rusticarum libri III but in the External links section it's called De re rustica. This is confusing, I used the latter title because that's how others reference this work, but what is the real title? Or can't we settle on one title because the two are used interchangebly? To add to the confusion Brittanica uses the title Res rustica. AlexanderVanLoon (talk) 10:30, 2 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: ''Rerum rusticarum libri III'' versus ''De re rustica''

message: The WP:LEADSENTENCE previously had . (A) This is the English Wikipedia; the English pronunciation is entirely unambiguous (compare Gaius (jurist) where the guide is to English pronunciation that might be unclear otherwise); and the reconstructed classical Latin pronunciation will never guide correct English pronunciation of the name. (B) The "Latin" pronunciation is entirely reconstructed, specious, and unused by the few (ecclesiastical) speakers of Latin still alive. (C) The curious for what that reconstruction are should be looking at Vicipaedia or Wiktionary, not here (). (D) For anyone who feels strongly to the contrary, it still should not be cluttering the  which is only for the most important essential information, which imaginary pronunciations of a dead language aren't. (Caesar eg might skate on this since the actual Latin pronunciation guides how his name gets used in many other languages and in important words like Kaiser. Varro isn't in the same league.) Instead, what would be useful for our  would be a #Name section that links through to articles about Marcus (praenomen) or (given name) and the gens Terentia, which should include discussion of the family's cognomina like . The classical Latin pronunciations would be appropriate on those name-focused articles, as opposed to here. — LlywelynII 04:53, 8 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Pronunciation

message: For anyone else hunting in vain for an explanation of this abbreviation, it doesn't refer to any work by Varro but to Varro as cited in Solinus's Polyhistor, Bk. 1, ch. 17. — LlywelynII 10:38, 31 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Varro ap. Solin. 1.17