Varena gens

This article is about a Roman family. For towns called "Varena", see Varena, Trentino and Varėna. For the 17th century German geographer, see Bernhardus Varenius.
Monument of Sextus Varenus Priscus at Tarnaiae Nantuatium.

The gens Varena or Varenia, rarely Vorena, was a minor plebeian family at ancient Rome. Only a few members of this gens are mentioned in Roman literature, but many others are known from inscriptions. Several of the Vareni held minor magistracies at Rome or in other towns during imperial times, including Lucius Varenus Lucullus, who was a military tribune and pontifex during the first century,[1] and Quintus Varenus Ingenuus, who served as aedile and quaestor.[2] Vorena, a woman of this family during the second or third century, seems to have been a Vestal Virgin.[3]

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