Varus (sources)
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Survey of ancient sources on the Roman Governor of Syria Varus.
Overview
Early Jewish sources
Josephus, Jewish War
War 1.617-640; 2.16-54, 66-83.
Josephus, Jewish Antiquities
Ant 17.89-93, 118-133, 221-228, 250-268, 286-303.
Josephus, Against Apion
Ap I 34 -- ...Antiochus Epiphanes made an invasion upon our country, as also Pompey the Great and Quintilius Varo did...
Greco-Roman sources
Tacitus, Annals
Annals 1.3, 55, 57, 60-61.
Velleius Paterculus, Roman History
2.117-120.
Cassius Dio, Roman History
56.18-23.
Suetonius, Lives of the Twelve Caesars
Augustus 23.