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5th-century Roman author and historian
Macrobius Ambrosius Theodosius, usually referred to as Macrobius (fl. c. AD 400), was a Roman provincial who lived during the early fifth century, during
Macrobius
Latin work by Macrobius
Florence. Macrobius. The Saturnalia. Translated by Percival Vaughan Davies. Columbia University Press, 1969. Loeb Classical Library (LCL) Macrobius. Saturnalia
Saturnalia_(Macrobius)
12th-century Irish priest
Macrobius was an Irish priest in the twelfth century. He was Archdeacon of Dublin, then Bishop of Glendalough. Bishop of Glendalough "Fasti Ecclesiae
Macrobius_(bishop)
Crater on the Moon
closest to Macrobius. The following craters have been renamed by the IAU. Macrobius A — See Carmichael. Macrobius B — See Hill. Macrobius D — See Fredholm
Macrobius_(crater)
Macrobius Cove (Bulgarian: залив Макробий, ‘Zaliv Macrobius’ \'za-liv ma-'kro-biy\) is the 2.8 km wide cove indenting for 3.4 km the west coast of Barison
Macrobius_Cove
Ancient Roman festival in December
work of that name by Macrobius, a Latin writer from late antiquity who is the major source for information about the holiday. Macrobius describes the reign
Saturnalia
Calendar used in Ancient Rome
Macrobius, Book I, Ch. 12, §3. Kaster (2011), p. 137. Mommsen & al. (1864), p. 217. Censorinus, Macrobius, and Solinus, cited in Key (1875) Macrobius
Roman_calendar
Solar calendar
meaning that Macrobius was simply stating that Caesar published an edict giving the revised calendar – see e.g., p.99 in the translation of Macrobius by P. Davies
Julian_calendar
Roman god
Macrobius Saturnalia I 9, 2. Ovid Fasti I 173-4. Macrobius defines him Consivium, i.e. propagator of the mankind. Saturnalia, I, 9, 16. Macrobius Sat
Janus
Philosophical treatise of Macrobius
style is quite uneven, since Macrobius copies or translates his sources without unifying the style. De re publica Macrobius Cicero Neoplatonism Plotinus
Commentarii in Somnium Scipionis
Commentarii_in_Somnium_Scipionis
Daughter of Augustus (39 BC – AD 14)
unger-de_beneficiis/1935/pb_LCL310.431.xml Macrobius, Saturnalia, Book II, 5:2, translations from Macrobius: Saturnalia, Volume I: Books 1–2. Edited and
Julia_the_Elder
Sixth book of Cicero's "De re publica"
writer Macrobius wrote a Neoplatonic commentary on the work, in which he excerpted large portions of Cicero. Additionally, many copies of Macrobius's work
Somnium_Scipionis
Rest days in the ancient Roman calendar
p. 395. Macrobius, Book I, Ch. xvi, §32. Tuditanus, cited by Macrobius. Macrobius, Book I, Ch. xvi, §33. Cassius Hemina, cited by Macrobius. Varro, Book
Nundinae
Ancient Roman goddess of marriage and childbirth
Cedrenus' s. Macrobius above, quotes Varro Antiquitates Rerum Divinarum V, as saying that Janus had twelve altars, one for each month. Macrobius Sat. I 9
Juno_(mythology)
Latin phrase meaning "vein of love"
most likely referring to a work by the fourth century Roman writer Macrobius. Macrobius, in Saturnalia VII, refers to the connection between the ring finger
Vena_amoris
Ancient Greco-Roman astrology
Retrieved 2009-06-26. Roberts (1906) p.488. Macrobius Commentary on Scipio's Dream, book 1, ch. 21; Macrobius presents it as 'Egyptian' lore. Campion (2008)
Hellenistic_astrology
Chief deity of Roman state religion
8–10. Macrobius Saturnalia III 6. Ovid Fasti I, 587–588. Varro De Lingua Latina VI 16. Sacrifices to Jupiter are also broached in Macrobius Saturnalia
Jupiter_(god)
Son of Herod the Great
Aristobulus, it would be recounted in the compendium Saturnalia (compiled by Macrobius) that Augustus remarked "It is better to be Herod's pig than his son."
Antipater (son of Herod the Great)
Antipater_(son_of_Herod_the_Great)
Ancient Greek sculpture by Phidias
Life of Aemilius Paulus XXVIII Or. 12.51 Strabo, 8.3.30. Compare with Macrobius, Saturnalia 5.23. Homer, Iliad 1.528–530. John Grimes Younger, Sex in
Statue_of_Zeus_at_Olympia
Nymph, daughter of Hephaestus
green") was a nymph daughter of Hephaestus, and the mother of the Palici. Macrobius and Servius (who also calls her Aetna) state how Zeus had sex with her
Thalia_(nymph)
Roman adaptation of the Greek divine hero Heracles
and the lion skin was depicted in a less abstract manner. According to Macrobius, a 5th-century CE Roman historian, the earlier author Varro—who lived
Hercules
Ancient Roman gift
the Monster (Princeton University Press, 1993), p. 166. Macrobius, Saturnalia 1.11.1. Macrobius Saturnalia 1.11.47 Scholiast to Juvenal 6.154; Lawrence
Sigillaria_(ancient_Rome)
Ancient Roman goddess of fertility and the earth
Ops directly with opus: "work," specifically the working of the earth. Macrobius, writing in the 5th century, similarly identified her with the work required
Ops
1788 painting by Angelica Kauffman
who kept it in the Lazienki Palace, in Warsaw. It depicts a legend in Macrobius that Octavia the Younger fainted whilst Virgil was reading to her and
Virgil Reading the Aeneid to Augustus and Octavia
Virgil_Reading_the_Aeneid_to_Augustus_and_Octavia
Latin prose writer of late antiquity
philosophy pioneered by Plotinus and his followers. Like his near-contemporary Macrobius, who also produced a major work on classical Roman religion, Martianus
Martianus_Capella
Roman deity, personification of pleasure
the Elder, Naturalis Historia, III. 5 Varro, De lingua Latina, V. 164 Macrobius, Saturnalia, I. 10 Robert E. A. Palmer, The Archaic Community of the Romans
Voluptas
2nd-century Roman author and grammarian
Servius, and Augustine; but most notable is how Gellius's work was mined by Macrobius, "who, without mentioning his name, quotes Gellius verbatim throughout
Aulus_Gellius
First century biography, by Quintus Curtius Rufus
Jordanes Julius Paulus Justin Juvenal Lactantius Livy Lucan Lucretius Macrobius Marcellus Empiricus Marcus Aurelius Manilius Martial Nicolaus Damascenus
Histories of Alexander the Great
Histories_of_Alexander_the_Great
neologisms against the critic Caesellius Vindex. The 5th-century historian Macrobius quotes several lines of Furius's work which would be copied by Virgil
Aulus_Furius_Antias
Amulet worn by Ancient Roman infants
2007, p. 330. Macrobius. Saturnalia. 3.14.7. Glinister 2017, p. 144, note 15. Plutarch. Sertorius. 14.1-3. Olson 2017, p. 64. Macrobius. Saturnalia. 1
Bulla_(amulet)
27 BC–476/1453 AD state and civilization
Christian dominion is found into the 5th century, with the Saturnalia of Macrobius and The Marriage of Philology and Mercury of Martianus Capella. Latin
Roman_Empire
Continuation of the Roman Empire (330–1453)
Jordanes Julius Paulus Justin Juvenal Lactantius Livy Lucan Lucretius Macrobius Marcellus Empiricus Marcus Aurelius Manilius Martial Nicolaus Damascenus
Byzantine_Empire
Gallo Roman goddess
21. Varro. De Lingua Latina, VI 23 Macrobius. Saturnalia, I 10, 7. Solinus. De Mirabilibus Mundi, I 6; Macrobius I, 10; Pliny, Natural History III, 9;
Angerona
self-confidence or as an example of Roman rashness. He is mentioned by Macrobius as the author of a work mentioning two sacral formulae to use against
Lucius_Furius_Philus
Roman polymath and author (116–27 BC)
Cicero, Pliny the Elder, Virgil in the Georgics, Columella, Aulus Gellius, Macrobius, Augustine, and Vitruvius, who credits him (VII.Intr.14) with a book on
Marcus_Terentius_Varro
American historian
New York University and Brooklyn College, known for his translation of Macrobius' Commentary on the Dream of Scipio and his 1962 book Roman Science. Stahl
William_Harris_Stahl
God in ancient Roman mythology
relief from civilized constraint. The Greek equivalent was the Kronia. Macrobius (5th century CE) presents an interpretation of the Saturnalia as a festival
Saturn_(mythology)
Class of jawless fish
976a This story is also found in Aelian (Various Histories VII, 4) and Macrobius (Saturnalia III.15.3). It is included by Hugo von Hofmannsthal in the
Lamprey
Late 4th/early 5th century Roman grammarian
printed at Florence, by Bernardo Cennini, in 1471. In the Saturnalia of Macrobius, Servius appears as one of the interlocutors; allusions in that work and
Servius_the_Grammarian
Masculine form of Aphrodite
Andromache/Andromachus. According to Macrobius, who mentions the goddess in his Saturnalia, Philochorus, in his Atthis (referred to by Macrobius), identifies this god
Aphroditus
Ancient Roman office
Jordanes Julius Paulus Justin Juvenal Lactantius Livy Lucan Lucretius Macrobius Marcellus Empiricus Marcus Aurelius Manilius Martial Nicolaus Damascenus
Promagistrate
Roman statesman and lawyer (106–43 BC)
Jordanes Julius Paulus Justin Juvenal Lactantius Livy Lucan Lucretius Macrobius Marcellus Empiricus Marcus Aurelius Manilius Martial Nicolaus Damascenus
Cicero
1st-century-BC Roman poet
selected at random and interpreted to answer questions. In a similar vein, Macrobius in the Saturnalia credits the work of Virgil as the embodiment of human
Virgil
Causality dilemma
problem (whether the world had a beginning)". In the fifth century CE, Macrobius wrote that while the question seemed trivial, it "should be regarded as
Chicken_or_the_egg
1st-century Latin poet from Hispania
Jordanes Julius Paulus Justin Juvenal Lactantius Livy Lucan Lucretius Macrobius Marcellus Empiricus Marcus Aurelius Manilius Martial Nicolaus Damascenus
Martial
Roman goddess of the Moon
Neptune, and deified mortals such as Hercules. She was one of the deities Macrobius proposed as the secret tutelary of Rome. In Imperial cult, Sol and Luna
Luna_(goddess)
Calendar year with a day (or month) added
between the 23rd and 24th days of February. All later writers, including Macrobius about 430, Bede in 725, and other medieval computists (calculators of
Leap_year
Manuscript
Jordanes Julius Paulus Justin Juvenal Lactantius Livy Lucan Lucretius Macrobius Marcellus Empiricus Marcus Aurelius Manilius Martial Nicolaus Damascenus
Laterculus_Veronensis
Textbook on Logic by Prophyry
Olympiodorus the Younger Asclepius of Tralles Pseudo-Dionysius Martianus Capella Macrobius Boethius Maximus the Confessor Al-Kindi Johannes Scotus Eriugena Related
Isagoge
Roman general and dictator (100–44 BC)
Jordanes Julius Paulus Justin Juvenal Lactantius Livy Lucan Lucretius Macrobius Marcellus Empiricus Marcus Aurelius Manilius Martial Nicolaus Damascenus
Julius_Caesar
Ancient Greek poet
subsequently visited Neapolis, where he taught Greek to Virgil, according to Macrobius. Parthenius is said to have lived until the accession of Tiberius in 14
Parthenius_of_Nicaea
2nd-century Numidian Latin-language writer, rhetorician and philosopher
Jordanes Julius Paulus Justin Juvenal Lactantius Livy Lucan Lucretius Macrobius Marcellus Empiricus Marcus Aurelius Manilius Martial Nicolaus Damascenus
Apuleius
Ancient Roman goddess of the hinge
Latin cardo/cardinis) points to the extent that the terrain permitted. Macrobius (5th century) says that the name Carna was derived from caro, carnis,
Cardea
Roman deity
of Greek "Demeter". In the late Imperial era, the neoplatonist author Macrobius identifies her as a universal earth-goddess, an epithet of Maia, Terra
Bona_Dea
Crater on the Moon
philosopher Proclus. It lies to the south of the prominent, terraced crater Macrobius, and west-northwest of the lava-flooded Yerkes. The rim of Proclus is
Proclus_(crater)
German physician
German translations of various classical and medieval authors (Trotula, Macrobius, Gilbertinus, Muscio). onomancy (18 mss., Heidelberger Schicksalsbuch
Johannes_Hartlieb
Jordanes Julius Paulus Justin Juvenal Lactantius Livy Lucan Lucretius Macrobius Marcellus Empiricus Marcus Aurelius Manilius Martial Nicolaus Damascenus
Roman_naming_conventions
Spiritual and philosophical texts used by Neoplatonist philosophers
Olympiodorus the Younger Asclepius of Tralles Pseudo-Dionysius Martianus Capella Macrobius Boethius Maximus the Confessor Al-Kindi Johannes Scotus Eriugena Related
Chaldean_Oracles
Roman god of the Sun
century BCE. His works have not survived, but writing five centuries later, Macrobius reports that Nigidius argued that Sol was to be identified with Janus
Sol_(Roman_mythology)
Ancient Roman title
Jordanes Julius Paulus Justin Juvenal Lactantius Livy Lucan Lucretius Macrobius Marcellus Empiricus Marcus Aurelius Manilius Martial Nicolaus Damascenus
Augustus_(title)
Aspect of ancient Roman society
Jordanes Julius Paulus Justin Juvenal Lactantius Livy Lucan Lucretius Macrobius Marcellus Empiricus Marcus Aurelius Manilius Martial Nicolaus Damascenus
Prostitution_in_ancient_Rome
1st-century BCE king of Judea
major Israeli archeologists. Accordingly, the plan was later abandoned. Macrobius (c. 400 CE), one of the last pagan writers in Rome, wrote in his book
Herod_the_Great
Form of Latin used in the Middle Ages
Jordanes Julius Paulus Justin Juvenal Lactantius Livy Lucan Lucretius Macrobius Marcellus Empiricus Marcus Aurelius Manilius Martial Nicolaus Damascenus
Medieval_Latin
Twelfth month in the Julian and Gregorian calendars
adjusted to reference period of 1850-1900 (representing pre-industrial era) Macrobius, Saturnalia, tr. Percival Vaughan Davies (New York: Columbia University
December
Crater on the Moon
previously designated Macrobius B. It lies just to the north-northeast of Carmichael, another renamed satellite crater of Macrobius. This is a circular
Hill_(crater)
genitals and in some cases a beard, called Aphroditos, was worshipped. Macrobius (c. 400s AD) wrote in his Saturnalia, at 3.8.2: There's also a statue
Homoerotic themes in Greek and Roman mythology
Homoerotic_themes_in_Greek_and_Roman_mythology
Citizenship in ancient Rome
Jordanes Julius Paulus Justin Juvenal Lactantius Livy Lucan Lucretius Macrobius Marcellus Empiricus Marcus Aurelius Manilius Martial Nicolaus Damascenus
Roman_citizenship
Medieval European maps of the world
Eastern Hemisphere. As most surviving zonal maps are found illustrating Macrobius' Commentary on Cicero's Dream of Scipio (an excerpt of Cicero's De Re
Mappa_mundi
Ancient Roman family
col. 1825 (Octavius 34). CIL XI, 6167. Masurius Sabinus, Memorial ii. Macrobius, iii. 6. Servius, viii. 363. Suetonius, De Illustribus Grammaticis, 2
Octavia_gens
1996), p. 141. Macrobius III 20, 2, quoting Veranius in his lost work De verbis pontificalibus. Macrobius III 12 Quoted by Macrobius, Saturnalia 3.20
Glossary of ancient Roman religion
Glossary_of_ancient_Roman_religion
Early 3rd century Roman noblewoman and Augusta
Jordanes Julius Paulus Justin Juvenal Lactantius Livy Lucan Lucretius Macrobius Marcellus Empiricus Marcus Aurelius Manilius Martial Nicolaus Damascenus
Annia_Faustina
because—according to Augustine—individuals cannot change their destiny. Macrobius. a 5th-century Roman historian, suggests that the Calends, Ides, Nones
Weddings_in_ancient_Rome
Spanish Renaissance writer, humanist, and historian
Gellius, the Banquet of the Sophists by Athenaeus, the Saturnalia of Macrobius, the Memorable deeds and sayings of Valerius Maximus, the De inventoribus
Pedro_Mexía
Tarquitius. Macrobius quotes Tarquitius twice, and these quotations are the only direct examples of his writings. In one instance, Macrobius elucidates
Tarquitius_Priscus
Roman goddess; either the wife, sister, or daughter of Faunus
omni usui animantium favet: Macrobius, Saturnalia 1.12.21–22, Loeb Classical Library translation, Robert A. Kaster, Macrobius. Saturnalia Books 1–2 (Harvard
Fauna_(deity)
1992), p. 102. Servius, note to Aeneid 8.654. Macrobius, Saturnalia 1.15.10, 19. Varro, De lingua latina 6.27; Macrobius, Saturnalia 1.15.10–19. v t e
Curia_Calabra
Currency of ancient Rome
Jordanes Julius Paulus Justin Juvenal Lactantius Livy Lucan Lucretius Macrobius Marcellus Empiricus Marcus Aurelius Manilius Martial Nicolaus Damascenus
Roman_currency
Scheduled celebration in ancient Rome
January 5; in the later Empire, they were regularly held January 3–5, but Macrobius (5th century AD) still categorized them as conceptivae. Sementivae, a
Roman_festivals
Political instability c. 134–30 BC
Jordanes Julius Paulus Justin Juvenal Lactantius Livy Lucan Lucretius Macrobius Marcellus Empiricus Marcus Aurelius Manilius Martial Nicolaus Damascenus
Crisis_of_the_Roman_Republic
Narrative from Christian Bible
the murder of three of his own sons. The early 5th-century account of Macrobius—that "on hearing that the son of Herod, king of the Jews, had been slain
Massacre_of_the_Innocents
Jordanes Julius Paulus Justin Juvenal Lactantius Livy Lucan Lucretius Macrobius Marcellus Empiricus Marcus Aurelius Manilius Martial Nicolaus Damascenus
Social_class_in_ancient_Rome
Magistrate of the Roman Republic
Jordanes Julius Paulus Justin Juvenal Lactantius Livy Lucan Lucretius Macrobius Marcellus Empiricus Marcus Aurelius Manilius Martial Nicolaus Damascenus
Praetor
Ancient city in modern Libya
Jordanes Julius Paulus Justin Juvenal Lactantius Livy Lucan Lucretius Macrobius Marcellus Empiricus Marcus Aurelius Manilius Martial Nicolaus Damascenus
Leptis_Magna
Areas of influence by ancient Greece and Rome
Jordanes Julius Paulus Justin Juvenal Lactantius Livy Lucan Lucretius Macrobius Marcellus Empiricus Marcus Aurelius Manilius Martial Nicolaus Damascenus
Greco-Roman_world
Thumb gesture used in the context of gladiatorial combat
the other digits was debated even in ancient times. Roman provincial Macrobius observed that the name of the thumb (pollex) was derived from the Latin
Pollice_verso
Study of classical antiquity
Jordanes Julius Paulus Justin Juvenal Lactantius Livy Lucan Lucretius Macrobius Marcellus Empiricus Marcus Aurelius Manilius Martial Nicolaus Damascenus
Classics
Series of Greek and Latin texts with English translations
The Loeb Classical Library (LCL; named after James Loeb; /loʊb/, German: [løːp]) is a monographic series of books originally published by Heinemann and
Loeb_Classical_Library
Name list
German humanist and translator Macrobius (fl. 5th century), Roman grammarian and philosopher (Ambrosius Theodosius Macrobius in later manuscripts) Ambrosius
Ambrosius
Written Latin of late antiquity
used a subset of Late Latin, pagans, such as Ammianus Marcellinus or Macrobius, also wrote extensively in Late Latin, especially in the early part of
Late_Latin
Astronomical phenomenon
Isis gave birth to Harpocrates (Horus the Child) at the winter solstice. Macrobius wrote in the fourth century that the Sun appears small at the winter solstice
Winter_solstice
Roman historian (c. AD 69 – after AD 122)
Jordanes Julius Paulus Justin Juvenal Lactantius Livy Lucan Lucretius Macrobius Marcellus Empiricus Marcus Aurelius Manilius Martial Nicolaus Damascenus
Suetonius
Main meal in Ancient Roman culture
Jordanes Julius Paulus Justin Juvenal Lactantius Livy Lucan Lucretius Macrobius Marcellus Empiricus Marcus Aurelius Manilius Martial Nicolaus Damascenus
Cena
Roman goddess of flowers and spring
doi:10.1017/S0068673500001619. ISSN 2053-5899. Ovid, Fasti V.193-212 Macrobius, Saturnalia I.10.11-14 Lactantius, Divinae institutiones I.20.6-10 The
Flora_(mythology)
Roman poet (AD 39–65)
Jordanes Julius Paulus Justin Juvenal Lactantius Livy Lucan Lucretius Macrobius Marcellus Empiricus Marcus Aurelius Manilius Martial Nicolaus Damascenus
Lucan
Roman sacred stones
November 8. Fruits of the harvest were offered to the dead at this time. Macrobius, quoting Varro, says of these days that: Mundus cum patet, deorum tristium
Lapis_manalis
Lunar geologic period
Eratosthenian craters on the near side of the Moon include Langrenus, Macrobius, Aristoteles, Hausen, Moretus, Pythagoras, Scoresby, Bullialdus, Plutarch
Eratosthenian
Theosophic-theurgic tractate attributed to Iamblichus
Olympiodorus the Younger Asclepius of Tralles Pseudo-Dionysius Martianus Capella Macrobius Boethius Maximus the Confessor Al-Kindi Johannes Scotus Eriugena Related
Reply_to_Porphyry
Groups of peasant insurgents in the later Roman Empire
Jordanes Julius Paulus Justin Juvenal Lactantius Livy Lucan Lucretius Macrobius Marcellus Empiricus Marcus Aurelius Manilius Martial Nicolaus Damascenus
Bagaudae
Figure in Greek mythology
of the cult in Greek countries are found in Cyprus. Here, according to Macrobius (Saturnalia, iii. 8), there was a bearded statue of a male Aphrodite,
Hermaphroditus
Household deities in ancient Roman religion
secret site in the shrine of Vesta, which is surrounded by curtains." Macrobius reports the theological view of Varro that "those who dig out truth more
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