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Varus, Publius Quintilius d.9AD
Roman official

As Governor of Syria he suppressed the revolt of Judea (4BC, also known as the War of Varus), and in AD9 was sent by Augustus to command in Germany. There Arminius destroyed three Roman legions (the 'Varian Disaster'), and Varus killed himself.