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Marcus Varro

Marcus Varro, a Roman scholar from 116–27 BCE, is depicted wearing a red tunic with a draped black cloak, symbolizing his scholarly and intellectual pursuits.

Roman scholar (116–27 BCE), sometimes called the most learned of the Romans. His treatise Rerum Rusticarum, written around 36 BCE, is one of the earliest surviving texts to note that the hexagonal honeycomb is the most economical use of wax. He wrote on agriculture, language, religion and antiquities; of his reputed 74 works, only fragments survive, mostly through later citation.

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