![]() Although Sextus survived the defeat, it is unknown whether he was involved in the assassination of Julius Caesar. This Sextus aligned with the Senatorial Party in the civil war against Julius Caesar. His father, Sextus Quinctilius Varus, was a senator who had served as a quaestor in 49 BC. Varus is generally remembered for having lost three Roman legions when ambushed by Germanic tribes led by Arminius in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, whereupon he killed himself.Īlthough he was a patrician by birth, his family, the Quinctilii Vari, had long been impoverished and was unimportant Ronald Syme notes, "The sole and last consul of that family", Sextus Quinctilius, "had been two years antecedent to the Decemvirs" (i.e. ![]() ![]() Publius Quinctilius Varus ( Cremona, 46 BC – Teutoburg Forest, AD 9) was a Roman general and politician under the first Roman emperor Augustus. ![]()
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