Vargunteius

• a Roman senator who was engaged in Catiline's conspiracy, Sall. C. 17, 3; 28, 1; 47, 1; Cic. Sull. 2, 6; 5, 15.

1. L. Vargunteius, a senator and one of Catiline's conspirators, undertook, in conjunction with C. Cornelius, to murder Cicero in B. C. 63, but their plan was frustrated by information conveyed to Cicero through Fulvia. He was afterwards brought to trial, but could find no one to defend him, not even Hortensius, who had defended him on a former occasion when he was accused of bribery. (Sal. Cat. 17, 28, 47, pro Sull. 2.)

2. Vargunteius, legatus of Crassus, in the Parthian war, in which he perished, B. C. 54. (Plut. Crass. 28.)

3. Q. Vargunteius, a Roman grammarian, who used to lecture on the Annals of Ennius. (Suet. de Ill. Gram. 2.)

4. M. Vargunteius, is mentioned on coins, a specimen of which is annexed. The obverse represents the head of Pallas with M. VARG., the reverse Jupiter in a quadriga with Roma below. (Eckhel, vol. v. p. 335.)

A Roman senator and one of Catiline's conspirators, who undertook, in conjunction with C. Cornelius, to murder Cicero in B.C. 63, but whose plan was frustrated by information conveyed to Cicero through Fulvia. He was afterwards brought to trial, but could find no one to defend him (Sall. Cat. 17, 47).