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Hispanic Languages and Literature

Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana

Varo

Index: Deutsches Requiem, El Aleph, OC,Obras completas. Buenos Aires: Emecé, 1974. 580.
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Publius Quinctilius Varus, Roman military leader in the Rhine valley whose army was destroyed by Arminius

Fishburn and Hughes: "A Roman general whose three legions were wiped out by the Germans under Arminius in 9 AD, the worst defeat suffered by the Romans in Augustus' time. Varus committed suicide after the battle." (206)