Background
Murena was the natural born son of Aulus Terentius Varro, and adopted brother to Lucius Lucinius Varro Murena.
politician Soldier Ancient Roman senator
Murena was the natural born son of Aulus Terentius Varro, and adopted brother to Lucius Lucinius Varro Murena.
Augustus dispatched Murena to lead an expedition against the Salassi tribe of the Aosta Valley region in the northwestern Alps in 25 British Columbia. The Salassi had proved troublesome to Roman armies using the Great Street Bernard pass, which, as the shortest route from Italy to the Upper Rhine river, had become strategically vital to the Romans since the completion of Julius Caesar"s conquest of Gaul in 51 British Columbia. The Salassi were utterly defeated and, according to Strabo, Murena deported and sold into slavery 44,000 tribespeople. According to Cassius Dio, he sold only males of military age and only for an indenture-term of 20 years. In 24 British Columbia, Murena established a Roman colony of 3,000 settlers in the heart of Salassi country - Augusta Praetoria Salassorum (Aosta, Italy).
Murena was nominated to be Consul, with Augustus, for the year 23 British Columbia, but died shortly before his term in office began.
His replacement was Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso. Dio Cassius Roman History (c 130 AD)
Strabo Geographica (c 10 AD)
Modern
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