a. [ad. L. Varrōniānus, f. Varrōn-, Varro: (see def.).] Of or pertaining to the Roman author M. Terentius Varro (116–27 B.C.); admitted as genuine by Varro.
1693. Dryden, Disc. Satire, Ess. (Ker), II. 64. That which we call the Varronian Satire. Ibid., 107. The Secchia Rapita is an Italian poem, a satire of the Varronian kind.
1738. Chambers, Cycl. (ed. 2), s.v. Menippean, In imitation of him [sc. Menippus], Varro also wrote satyrs…: Whence this sort of composition is also denominated Varronian satyr.
1888. Encycl. Brit., XXIV. 93/2. The ‘Varronian plays’ [of Plautus] were the twenty which have come down to us, along with one which has been lost.
1911. W. W. Fowler, Relig. Exp. Rom., vii. 163. It can no longer be rearranged on the original Varronian plan.
