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Nearly on the same meridian with Proclus, at a distance of about a hundred miles northward, lies a fine example of a ring mountain, rather more than forty miles in diameter, and with peak-tipped walls which in some places are 13,000 feet in height, as measured from the floor within. This is Macrobius. There is an inconspicuous central mountain in the ring.
How the good Macrobius gave us an account of the mansion and decease of the heroes.
The works of Justin, Seneca, Martial, Terence, and Claudian were highly popular with the bibliophiles of early times; and the writings of Ovid, Tully, Horace, Cato, Aristotle, Sallust, Hippocrates, Macrobius, Augustine, Bede, Gregory, Origen, etc.
Ad Atticum, ix. 18. Ibid. vii. 11, ix. 6, x. 8 and 9, xi, 9, etc. Macrobius, Saturnalia, ii. 3. Ad Atticum, xi. 8, 9, 10 and 12. Ibid. xi. 13. Ad Fam. iv. 14; Middleton, vol. ii. p. 149. Ibid. Ad Fam. iv. 6. Ad Atticum, xii. 15, etc Ad Atticum, xiii. 20. Ibid. xii. 40 and 41.
It is, doubtless, possible to make too much of the sweeping statements made in the comments of Macrobius and Servius on the earlier parts of the Aeneid "this passage is all taken from Naevius;" "all this passage is simply conveyed from Naevius' Punic War."
There is a rill-valley between its N.E. side and Macrobius. CLEOMEDES. A large oblong enclosure, 78 miles in diameter, with massive walls, varying in altitude from 8000 to 10,000 feet above the interior. The most noteworthy features in connection with the circumvallation are the prominent depressions on the W. wall.
According to Macrobius, Vergil paid him the compliment of imitating him, and he in turn is cited by the scholiasts as authority for an opinion of Vergil's.
Of the ancient writers whom he condescends to quote, the only two who expressly identify Osiris with the sun are Diodorus and Macrobius. But little weight can be attached to their evidence; for the statement of Diodorus is vague and rhetorical, and the reasons which Macrobius, one of the fathers of solar mythology, assigns for the identification are exceedingly slight.
Macrobius has pictured her in human lights and shadows, a probable image, describing her as a highly cultured woman, lavish in tastes and expenditure, fond of beautiful literature, of the fine arts, and of the company of handsome and elegant young men.
What could Sallust, Tully, Boethius, Macrobius, Lactantius, Martianus, and in short the whole troop of Latin writers have done, if they had not seen the productions of Athens or the volumes of the Greeks?
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