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Alfenus Varus
Alfenus Varus was an ancient Roman jurist and writer who lived around the 1st century BC.
==Life==
Alfenus Varus (whose praenomen might have been Publius) was a pupil of Servius Sulpicius Rufus, and the only pupil of Servius from whom there are any excerpts in the ''Pandects''. Nothing is known about him except from a story preserved by the scholiast Helenius Acron, in his notes on the satires of Horace.〔Horace, ''Satires'' i. 3. 130〕 The scholiast assumes the "Alfenus Vafer" of Horace to be the lawyer, and says that he was a native of Cremona, where he carried on the trade of a barber or a botcher of shoes,〔Both readings are present, the Latin ''tonsor'' and ''sutor''〕 that he came to Rome to become a student of Servius, attained the dignity of consulship, and was honored with a public funeral.
Pomponius also states that Varus attained consulship, but this will not prove the rest of the scholiast's story to be true. The Publius Alfenius Varus who was consul in 2 AD can hardly be the pupil of Servius; and it is conjectured that he may have been the jurist's son. It is impossible to determine what credit is due to the scholiast on Horace: he must have found the story somewhere, or have invented it. Indeed he and other scholiasts do sometimes favor us with a commentary which tells us nothing more than the text. The fact of an Alfenus being a native of Cremona, and of an Alfenus having been a pupil of Servius, and a learned jurist, and of an Alfenus having been consul, is quite enough to enable a scholiast with the assistance of the passage in Horace to fabricate the whole story of Alfenus, as he has given it.
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