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	Ambrosius Theodosius Macrobius - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ambrosius Theodosius Macrobius, Roman grammarian and philosopher, flourished during the reigns of Honorius and Arcadius (395–423).
		He may be identical with a Macrobius who is mentioned in the Codex Theodosianus as a praetorian praefect in Spain in 399-400, proconsul of Africa in 410, and lord chamberlain in 422.
		Macrobius is also the author of a commentary in two books on the Somnium Scipionis narrated by Cicero at the end of his De re publica.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Macrobius (698 words)

	Macrobius (crater) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Macrobius is a prominent lunar impact crater located to the northwest of the Mare Crisium.
		The outer wall of Macrobius has a multiply-terraced inner surface, with some slumping along the top of the rim.
		The small satellite crater 'Macrobius C' lies across the western rim, but the wall is otherwise relatively free of significant wear.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Macrobius_(crater) (176 words)

	Chaucer: Class Mini Reports (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Macrobius is a Latin writer and philosopher who flourished at the end of the fourth century and the beginning of the fifth century.
		Macrobius believes that the apparition comes upon one in the moment between wakefulness and slumber, in what he calls the "first cloud of sleep," while the nightmare is deceitful and false and sent by "departed spirits of the sky" (Stahl, 89).
		Macrobius therefore uses The Dream of Scipio as the touchstone, to expand on his belief that the "most effective way of instilling in man a desire to lead an upright, law-abiding life is by revealing to him the habitation and rewards of departed souls" (Stahl,13).
	individual.utoronto.ca /jensutherl/minireportoctober.html (2866 words)

	Slide #201 Monograph
		Macrobius was a late Roman neoplatonic grammarian and philosopher who wrote several eclectic works that were much read in the Middle Ages.
		Macrobius' 5th century commentary carries further the statement of Cicero concerning the habitable character of this southern zone, specifically known as the Antichthon.
		Macrobius affirms that it is reason alone that permits us to assume its habitable character, for the intervening torrid zone prevents us from ever knowing what the truth of that matter may be.
	www.henry-davis.com /MAPS/EMwebpages/201mono.html (1579 words)

	main00 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Macrobius echoes this notion of Socrates as he states in Chapter IX, "To one desiring to know by what path blessedness is reached the reply is, 'Know Thyself'" (Stahl 124).
		Macrobius begins by stating that the origin of souls is in the celestial realm (Stahl 15).
		Macrobius goes on to say that as long as souls reflect on the "singleness of their divine state," they reside in the sky; but when they are overtaken by a longing for a body, they gradually slip down, taking on corporeal accretions as they pass throughout each of the spheres (15).
	athena.english.vt.edu /~exlibris/essays00/hayne.htm (8051 words)

	Florilegium (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Such an author is thus akin to Macrobius’ philosopher who cloaks “holy truths” in fiction and similar to the kind of poet Natura speaks of in the De planctu, one who wraps the dulciorem nucleum veritatis in a literal cortex resounding with the false notes of the poetic lyre (W 465; M 451).
		Macrobius’ commentary on the Somnium Scipionis had taught what sentencie gratuitas lay concealed beneath the entirely legitimate verborum florida exornacio, and Martianus Capella’s De nuptiis provided an admirable example of the extent to which instruction in the Arts could be embellished with narrative fancy and precious locutions.
		Like Macrobius, she contrasts the “childish cradles of poetry” with the more rational discourse of philosophy, and declares that the fables attributing perverse sexual behaviour to the gods must not be countenanced.
	www.uwo.ca /english/florilegium/vol1/marshall.html (9887 words)

	Fusion Verjus
		What they commonly call acresta, I would call omphacium, on the authority of Pliny, and acor [verjuice], on the authority of Macrobius, for omphax, as I have said, means a still-bitter grape; therefore, I would rather call oil from an unripe berry omphacium than acresta, which I do not quite see as being from omphax.
		[Macrobius] thus defines verjuice: vinegar is sharper than verjuice, whose force it is agreed is greater than acresta, which soothes I>, which soothes the burning of the stomach more mildly and does not emaciate or weaken the body as vinegar is apt to do.
		Pliny and Macrobius were ancient scholars and like many others in early Rome, among the first gourmands.
	www.verjus.com /history.html (573 words)

	Roman to Julian Conversion: Sources
		Macrobius wrote in the fifth century AD, but he drew on a large number of earlier sources, mostly now lost, most of which he names.
		Many of these were directly contemporary with the usage he describes, and were written by people who, by virtue of their position and expertise, were speaking with great authority.
		His description of the management of intercalation in the republican calendar is confused, and his description of the mismanagement of the Julian reform does not appear to be completely correct.
	www.tyndale.cam.ac.uk /Egypt/ptolemies/chron/roman/chron_rom_src.htm (1776 words)

	Appendix to Galactic Alignment
		For example, the authors of Hamlet’s Mill pointed out long ago that Macrobius was speaking of signs, and suggested that his location for the gateways (at the intersection of Milky Way and ecliptic) is the true doctrine, consistent with similar soul-path cosmogonies found in other traditions (e.g., of the Mangaens).
		Macrobius is following Porphyry (De antro 28), whose error results from his attempt to make the portals of souls correspond with Homer’s description of the doors of the Ithacan cave (Odyssey XIII.109-12).
		Proclus, Plotinus, Cicero, Porphyry, Numenius, Plato, Homer, Macrobius, the Chaldean Oracles, the Mithraic Mysteries, the Orphic hymns, and Philo of Alexandria all contribute to this reevaluation.
	edj.net /mc2012/AppendixtoGA-neoplatonic.html (2730 words)

	Lives of Saints :: Baramouda 7
		Anba Moses indicated to him the hardship of the monastic life and its difficulties especially he was raised in luxury and family wealth, and the one that slept on silk, could not take the rough life.
		Anba Macrobius increased in virtues, asceticism and giving alms to the weak, needy, widows, orphans and the lonely, beside caring for his monasteries.
		Macrobius returned to his monastery, the people of Assuit and Shatb received him with songs and hymns until they came to the monastery.
	www.copticchurch.net /synaxarium/08_07.html (801 words)

	László A. Magyar: Digitus medicinalis - the etymology of the name
		However, the scientific explanations of Gellius and Macrobius – as already pointed out by Bachofen, too – are still not satisfactory and rather seem to be the rational explanation of a belief (15).
		In Macrobius one of the figures narrates that in the sanctuary the Egyptian priests anointed their ring fingers with a fragrant oil.
		When he asked why they had done it, he got the answer that the rite was due to the numerological significance of the vessel proceeding from the heart into the ring finger and of the ring finger.
	www.angelfire.com /dc/orvostortenet/eng/digitus.html (1888 words)

	Roman to Julian Conversion: AUC 708 = 46 BC
		It was later known to Macrobius as "the last year of confusion" (although this was not quite true).
		By contrast, Macrobius, Saturnalia 1.14.3, gives the length as 443 or (in one MS) 440 days, but does not given any details about the internal structure of the year.
		The most detailed account comes from Censorinus 20.8, who states that Caesar added two months between November and December for a total of 67 days, in addition to the 23 days already intercalated in Februarius, for a total of 445 days in MSS known to modern scholars.
	www.geocities.com /christopherjbennett/ptolemies/chron/roman/046bc.htm (1068 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 889 (v. 2) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		We do not possess the original work as it proceeded from the hand of Macrobius, but merely an abridgement by a certain Joannes, whom Pithou has thought fit to identify with Joannes Scotus, who lived in the time of Charles the Bald.
		On the Christianity of Macrobius consult Masson, the Slaughter of the Children in Bethlehem, andc., 8vo.
		Lardner is inclined to think that Gennadius has made a confusion be tween two persons of the same name, and that Macrobius, the fourth Donatist bishop of Rome, never was a Catholic.
	ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/1997.html (882 words)

	Lynch Abstract (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Macrobius, the Late Antique author of what came to be the standard oneirocritical manual of the Middle Ages, identified five categories of dreams, but of these five it is the somnium, or allegorical dream, that is the focus of both his interest and that of later writers.
		In this paper, I will concentrate upon Macrobius' definition and discussion of allegorical dreaming in relation to the three dreams which Dante has over the course of his journey up Mt. Purgatory, in order to examine the elements of temporality and corporality in medieval conventions of oneiric allegory.
		Similarly, both Macrobius and Dante seek to establish the authority of dreams by insisting that they take place when the soul is most free of the body.
	www3.sympatico.ca /knight.sinding/acla/ablynch.htm (361 words)

	The solstice gateways and the polar-to-solar shift (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		However, as Macrobius points out, it is the constellations that rise heliacally at the time of the solstices that reveal the gateways.
		In other words, Porphyry implies—and Macrobius literally states—that Sagittarius and Gemini are the locations of the “gateways” not because the solstices are nearby, but because of the features in those constellations.
		As mentioned, Macrobius literally states (in his Commentary on the Dream of Scipio) that the gateways are where the zodiac intersects the Milky Way.
	www.alignment2012.com /polar-to-solar.html (5713 words)

	Rabelais - Pantagruel - Book 3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Little is known about his life: he may have been a praetorian prefect in Spain (399), proconsul in Africa (410), and grand chamberlain (422).
		The Saturnalia, which is dedicated to Macrobius' son Eustachius, purports to give an account of discussions in private houses on the day before the Saturnalia and on three days of that festival.
		Macrobius also wrote a commentary on Cicero's "Somnium Scipionis" ("The Dream of Scipio") from the De Republica.
	www.pantagruelion.com /p/s/10061.html (137 words)

	Institute for the Classical Tradition \| Boston University
		Mary Louise Lord, “The Use of Macrobius and Boethius in Some Fourteenth-Century Commentaries on Virgil,”; IJCT 3 (1996-1997), pp.
		From Macrobius they quoted passages of antiquarian and philosophical interest from the Saturnalia and from the Commentarii in Somnium Scipionis.
		These references help to illustrate the vigor and variety of the Virgilian commentaries and their contribution to the growing humanistic movement of the fourteenth century.
	www.bu.edu /ict/ijct/search/3/1/lord.html (180 words)

	Ambrosius Macrobius (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Ambrosius Macrobius was a Roman philosopher and writer of the fifth century who is best-known for his Saturnalia, a dialogue in seven books which includes a literary evaluation of Virgil as well as valuable quotations from other writers.
		Also contained in Saturnalia is the text, with commentary, of Cicero's Dream of Scipio, which was popular in the Middle Ages and influenced Chaucer.
		Macrobius was among the first to hold the idea of a spherical earth with northern and southern hemispheres divided by an equatorial ocean.
	www.alcott.net /alcott/home/champions/Macrobius.html (111 words)

	Festivals of Light
		Macrobius wrote that in celebrating the Saturnalia the Romans used to honor the altars of Saturn with lighted candles.
		It would appear that the main idea behind the Saturnalia-type festivals, so widespread in antiquity, was a re-enactment of the conditions that existed during the Golden Age when Saturn reigned.
		Macrobius noted also the opinion of those who “think that the practice is derived simply from the fact that it was in the reign of Saturn that we made our way, as thou to the light, from a rude and gloomy existence to a knowledge of the liberal arts.”
	www.varchive.org /itb/litefest.htm (817 words)

	Hemispheres Antique Maps & Prints - Individual Map Details
		This work of Macrobius was arguably the most influential of all pre-Renaissance views of the world.
		Macrobius (c.395-436 AD) was a Roman philosopher who enjoyed great popularity throughout the Middle Ages.
		In his view, the inhabited world north of the Equator was balanced by a southern continent and divided from it by a vast equatorial sea.
	www.betzmaps.com /AB-05.html (345 words)

	The Conspiracy of Allusion
		Chrétien de Troyes's reference to Macrobius on the art of description is indicative of the link between the vernacular literary tradition of rewriting and the Latin tradition of imitation.
		Crucial to this study are writings that bridge the span between elementary school exercises in imitation and the masterpieces of the art in Latin and French.
		The book follows the development of the medieval art of imitation through Macrobius and commentaries on Horace's Art of Poetry and then applies it to the interpretation of works on the Trojan War, consent in love and marriage, and lyric and vernacular insertions.
	www.brill.nl /product.asp?ID=8931 (242 words)

	Telegraph \| Opinion \| World of books
		From Macrobius came many of their theories about dreams and their significance, and also their mythology about a future life, heaven, hell and purgatory.
		Chaucer's meditation on different types of dream and of the dreams which are boringly reflective of things we have just been doing, or reading, is one of his most charming passages.
		Chaucer, with a dog-eared copy of Macrobius on the bedside ("my olde bok totorn") dreams that he is having a mini-Dante experience.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2005/02/14/do1406.xml&sSheet=/arts/2005/02/13/bomain.html (716 words)

	Saturn is the son of the Heaven and the Earth, Uranus and Gaea
		(Macrobius 59) His second story is about a group of men left behind in Italy by Hercules.
		(Macrobius 60) This version says that those men started the festival in honor of the god from which they got their names.
		(the Temple of Saturn) Macrobius records that Tullus Hostilius built a shrine to Saturn and that was the first time the Saturnaila was brought to Rome.
	students.roanoke.edu /groups/relg211/myers/Saturn.html (2037 words)

	Augustine and the Fall of Rome 395-476 by Sanderson Beck
		Macrobius in his Saturnalia portrayed several prominent pagan aristocrats in a discussion held during the three days of that festival.
		Macrobius' Commentary on Cicero's "Dream of Scipio" preserved that portion of Cicero's Republic for posterity and described a mystical cosmology using Pythagorean ideas.
		Macrobius emphasized the cardinal Hellenic virtues, held out the prospect of reward after death, and believed in the divine origin and destiny of the human soul.
	www.san.beck.org /AB11-AugustineandRome.html (21998 words)

	EMLS 5.2 (September, 1999): 5.1-19] Utopia and the 'Pacific Rim': The Cartographical Evidence
		Sacrobosco together with the late Classical authors Martianus Capella and Macrobius were among the most important geographical sources that kept alive belief in the Middle Ages in the Earth's sphericity, the existence of the Antipodes, and the theory of climatic zones (Macrobius 20).
		Though More doesn't mention Macrobius anywhere by name, it is highly likely he was familiar with Macrobius' Commentary on Cicero's Dream of Scipio (See Appendix: More and Macrobius), which he could also have read as early as his Oxford days and which appeared in ten printed editions before Utopia was published (Macrobius 61).
		Prior to the discovery of the Vatican Palimpsest in 1822 and apart from brief summaries made by the Church Fathers Lactantius and Augustine, the Dream of Scipio was all that was known of Cicero's De republica.
	www.shu.ac.uk /emls/05-2/lakocart.htm (4776 words)

	Chapter 4. - XXV.
		An old Macrobius (so they called their eldest elderman) desired Pantagruel to come to the town-house to refresh himself and eat something, but he would not budge a foot from the mole till all his men were landed.
		After he had seen them, he gave order that they should all change clothes, and that some of all the stores in the fleet should be brought on shore, that every ship's crew might live well; which was accordingly done, and God wot how well they all toped and caroused.
		Old Macrobius asked, in the Ionic tongue, How, and by what industry and labour, Pantagruel got to their port that day, there having been such blustering weather and such a dreadful storm at sea.
	www.globusz.com /ebooks/Rabelais/00000192.htm (403 words)

	Lives of Saints :: Baramhat 2
		The Martyrdom of St. Macrobius (Makrawy) the Bishop.
		On this day the blessed Saint Anba Makrawy (Macrobius) the bishop was martyred.
		Macrobius prayed over him and God healed him through his prayers.
	www.copticchurch.net /classes/synex.php?id=182 (621 words)

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