Varro was himself contributing to the history of religious thought as much as he was commenting on that history. And in fact his great encyclopaedia was to become, almost from the moment he wrote it, a work of even greater symbolic authority than the priests’ own books – ‘as Varro says’ being a legitimating Roman catchphrase for almost any claim (bogus or not) about the history, traditions and theology of state religion.
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