"Non è una città per vecchi". Per una rilettura del Sexagessis di Varrone

This article focuses on Varro’s Sexagessis and offers an interpretation of the Satire in a socio-political direction, with the purpose of enlightening the formidable portrait of the Late Roman Republic offered by the fragments. In particular, I propose an historical reading of the text which points out the presence of the figure of Publius Clodius Pulcher. A straight comparison with Cicero’s “clodian” texts is particularly useful to enrich the picture, as well as a topographical analysis of the fragments.