Quinctilius Varus Minor

Publius Quinctilius Varus Minor (Minor in Latin means 'the younger') (AD 4 AD 27) was a Roman senator.

Family background Varus was a member of the gens Quinctilia. He was the only child born to the Roman general and politician Publius Quinctilius Varus from his third wife Claudia Pulchra.

Victim of treason trials of Sejanus In AD 27, Varus became another victim of the treason trials of the Palace Guardsman Sejanus. the charge may have been treason or maiestas. His accusers were the celebrated orator Domitius Afer and his cousin Publius Cornelius Dolabella. However, a passage from Seneca the Elder suggests that Varus may have been acquitted: Seneca writes that Varus had a somewhat successful legal career, despite Lucius Cestius Pius taunting Varus with his father's defeat in the Teutoburg Forest.

Personal life and issue

He had a large villa at Tivoli, Lazio.

Varus was betrothed to his distant maternal cousin Julia Livilla, one of the daughters of Agrippina the Elder and Germanicus, although they did not marry. Varus married a noblewoman called Plautia Laterana, by whom he had a daughter called Quinctilia.