Alfenus Varus

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Alfenus Varus was an ancient Roman jurist and writer who lived around the 1st century BC. 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. 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, that he came to Rome to become a student of Servius, attained the dignity of consulship, and was honored with a public funeral.