VARRO ATACINUS is extolled by several of the ancient writers. Velleius Paterculus classes him with Lucretius and Catullus. Quintilian mentions him as a poet who had acquired a name. He is likewise mentioned by Ovid, Propertius, and Statius. Virgil adopted several of his verses with little or no alteration. It is, however, to be regretted that, with the exception of a few fragments, all his works have perished. These fragments are to be found in various collections, and, among the rest, in Wernsdorf's Poetæ Latini Minores, Altenburghi, 1788-99, 6 tom. 8vo. They are incorporated in Wöllner's learned dissertation on the life and writings of the author. One of his works was a version of the Argonautica of Apollonius Rhodius; but from the fragments which remain, it does not appear to have been a close version. Another of his works, Bellum Sepanicense, was an epic or historical poem in celebration of Caesar's recent victories. A third was a metrical Chorographia, of which Ruhnenius supposes his Europa, quoted by Festus, to have formed a part. The rest of his works, so far as they are enumerated, consisted of elegies, satires, and epigrams. (D. I.)