Word: varro
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...there is any hope at all, of finding the final text of such Latin authorities as Livy and Varro, such hopes rest in Herculaneum alone. Pompeii will never give us any original documents, for the lava which buried it was porous and permitted the infiltration of water. This destroyed any papyri which may have existed. The volcanic substance which flowed over Herculaneum became so solidified that it may have preserved some few libraries...
Besides being a noted educator, he is also a man of letters of reputation. He is the author of a translation, with texual criticism, commentary, and notes of "Varro on Farming," as well as the writer of a number of volumes prominent among which are "Science in the Roman Empire," "Heracleitus and Modern Theories of the Kosmos" "A Roman Farmstead" and of many magazine articles and reviews in the Classical Quarterly and elsewhere...