philologico-historical

Updated: May 28, 2025

A more original and more pleasing phenomenon in this debateable border-land between poetry and prose was the aesthetic writings of Varro, who was not merely the most important representative of Latin philologico-historical research, but one of the most fertile and most interesting authors in belles-lettres.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome, Book V : The Establishment of the Military Monarchy

A more original and more pleasing phenomenon in this debateable border-land between poetry and prose was the aesthetic writings of Varro, who was not merely the most important representative of Latin philologico-historical research, but one of the most fertile and most interesting authors in belles-lettres.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5)