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Macrobius (məkrō`bēəs), fl. c.430, Latin writer and philosopher. His Saturnalia, a dialogue in seven books chiefly concerned with a literary evaluation of Vergil, incorporates valuable quotations from other writers. He also wrote a commentary on Cicero's Dream of Scipio, which was popular in the Middle Ages and influenced Chaucer. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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74) In the case of Macrobius, in a chapter devoted to legal questions about wild animals hunted and killed on land belonging to others, (75) he defends Virgil, who attributed the start of the Latin wars to such a case and was criticised by Macrobius for allegedly making up a childish and quite unsupported fiction. on his way to Granada, to Court a second time, reciting into memory the passages of Ptolemy and Saint Augustine, of Aeneas Sylvius and Seneca, of Martinus of Tyre and Marco Polo, of Petrus de Ailliaco and Alfragan, of Macrobius . According to Macrobius, a 5th century Roman writer, the betrothal ring was worn on the fourth finger of the left hand. |
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