{{Short description|Plebeian tribune in 90 BC}} '''Quintus Varius Severus''' (from 125 to 120 BC; died after 90 BC) was a politician in the late Roman Republic. He was also called '''Hybrida''' (of mixed race) because his mother was from Hispania.<ref>Valerius Maximus, 8,6,4. "Q. autem Varius propter obscurum ius ciuitatis Hybrida", [http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/valmax8.html]</ref><ref>Harry Thurston Peck ''Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities'', (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1898)[http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0062%3Aalphabetic+letter%3DV%3Aentry+group%3D1%3Aentry%3Dvarius-hybrida-harpers "Varius Hybrida"]</ref>
Quintus Varius Severus Hybrida was from Sucro, Hispania (in eastern Iberian peninsula, in the contemporary municipality of Albalat de la Ribera) and was the first senator of the Republic to come from the province of Hispania. In 90 BC he was elected to the tribune. He wrote a law, the ''lex Varia'', in order to punish all those who had “assisted” those who took up arms against the Roman people.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=The collapse of Rome : Marius, Sulla and the first Civil War, 91-70 BC|last=Sampson, Gareth C.|isbn=9781473826854|location=Barnsley, South Yorkshire|oclc=893910287|date = 2013-09-09}}</ref> In practice it was used to prosecute those who had supported giving the Socii citizenship.<ref name=":0" /> As a result, many distinguished senators, among them Gaius Aurelius Cotta, were sent to exile.<ref name=":0" /> In the following year after the application of the law, Varius himself was also convicted by the same law he wrote.<ref name=":0" />
==References== {{Reflist}}
==Original texts== *[https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Appian/Civil_Wars/1*.html Appian, Die Bürgerkriege, Buch 1,37] *[http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/asconius.html Asconius 22] *[http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/cicero/brut.shtml#304 Cicero, Brutus 304-305] *[http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/valmax8.html Valerius Maximus 8,6,4]
==Literature== *Ernst Badian, "Quaestiones Variae", ''Historia'' '''4''' (1969), pp. 447–491. *Erich S. Gruen, "The Lex Varia", ''Journal of Roman Studies'', '''55''' (1965), p. 59–73. *Jochen Martin, ''Die Popularen in der Geschichte der späten Republik''. Dissertation, Freiburg i. Br. 1965. *Lukas Thommen, ''Das Volkstribunat der späten römischen Republik''. Stuttgart, 1989 {{ISBN|3-515-05187-2}}.
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