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There are several contemporary references to the crowded and dangerous condition of the streets of Rome at the end of the Republic. Justice Blackstone in the famous leading case of Scott v. Cf. Pliny, XVIII, 3. This custom which Varro regrets had fallen into desuetude so far as Rome was concerned was in his day still practised in the provinces.
"Where there may yet be hope, if the gods will it, if they strike down Varro: the centre, the legions. I do not believe they have fairly advanced their standards yet." "Do we fly?" and, as he spoke, Sergius frowned darkly. "Fool! We fight. Later, perhaps, we shall die, but not here. In the centre "
"I thank you, Caius Manlius, for the reminder; and I also may recall to you that I am neither the only nor the highest officer who is serving as volunteer to-day, because Varro must have legions commanded by butchers and bakers and money-lenders. As for frightening recruits, if words and the sight of old scars will frighten them, they had best ride north to-day hard and fast."
Everyday life, however, was more deeply influenced by the revolution in domestic architecture which must, at latest, be placed in this period. Yet the materials used in building remained simple; "our ancestors," says Varro, "dwelt in houses of brick, and laid merely a moderate foundation of stone to keep away damp." Plastic Art and Painting
The early Roman, in the days of Numa, was highly ethical in his views of the Deity, and his conceptions of moral law. Varro informs us that for a period of one hundred and seventy years the Romans worshipped their gods without any images; and Sallust denominates these pristine Romans "religiosissimi mortales."
He leered cunningly at his listeners; then his face grew set, and his voice cold and even. "I have solicited command of the Roman cavalry. We shall fight on the right wing, beside the river, and I do not think many of us will ride from the battle. Varro commands the cavalry of the allies on the left, and the pro-consuls" he hesitated a moment "the pro-consuls market their beeves in the centre.
Valerius Flaccus, one of Caesar's lieutenants, C. i. 30; his death, C. iii. 5 3 Varro, one of Pompey's lieutenants, C. i. 38; his feelings towards Caesar, C. ii. 17; his cohorts driven out by the inhabitants of Carmona, C. ii. 19; his surrender, C. ii. 20 Varus, one of Pompey's lieutenants, is afraid to oppose Juba. C. ii. 44; his flight, C. ii. 34 Vatinius, one of Caesar's followers, C. iii. 100
The senate, which voted its thanks to its political enemy, Varro, after his disastrous defeat, 'because he had not despaired of the commonwealth, and which disdained either to solicit, or to reprove, or to threaten, or in any way to notice the twelve colonies which had refused their customary supplies of men for the army, is far more to be honoured than the conqueror of Zama.
Varro takes the lion's share of the first dialogue, and shows how from the "vast and varied genius of Plato" both Academics and Peripatetics drew all their philosophy, whether it related to morals, to nature, or to logic. Stoicism receives a passing notice, as also does what Varro considers the heresy of Theophrastus, who strips virtue of all its beauty, by denying that happiness depends upon it.
By thus doing he obtained a position which he could the better hold with his inferior forces, while the Romans, deeming that he intended to attack their camp on that side of the river, would be likely to move their whole army across and to give battle. This in fact Varro proceeded to do.
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