Of the twenty-one plays which varro accepted, on the ground of their intrinsic merits, as certainly genuine, we possess twenty, and fragments of the remaining one, the Vidularia.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
But there was another kind of satura, of which Ennius and Pacuvius in early times, and varro at a somewhat later time, were regarded as the principal authors.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
It belongs formally to the medley of prose and verse which varro introduced into Roman literature on the model of Menippus of Gadara.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill