macrobius

Updated: May 23, 2025

His image was represented with the solar rays streaming down from it towards the earth, so as to indicate that the earth received from him all that made it fruitful and abundant. Macrobius connects his name with the Hebrew chad, "one;" but this derivation is improbable.

George Rawlinson - History of Phoenicia

Macrobius, a grammarian of the fifth century, made it the text of a commentary of little present interest or value, but much prized and read in the Middle Ages. The Dream, independently of the commentary, has in more recent times passed through unnumbered editions, sometimes by itself, sometimes with Cicero's ethical writings, sometimes with the other fragments of the De Republica.

Marcus Tullius Cicero - De Amicitia, Scipio's Dream

"Our ancestors," says Macrobius, "denominated the master, father of the family, and the slave, domestic, with the intention of removing all odium from the condition of the master, and all contempt from that of the servant." Could this language be applied to the present state of West India slavery?

Thomas Clarkson - The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade, by the British Parliament (1839)

You know, Sir, what Macrobius has told us of Julia. JOHNSON. 'This lady of yours, Sir, I think, is very fit for a brothel. Mr. Macbean, authour of the Dictionary of ancient Geography, came in. He mentioned that he had been forty years absent from Scotland. 'Ah, Boswell! Williams, and Mr. Levet, dined with us. Mrs.

James Boswell - Boswell's Life of Johnson : Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood

"Our ancestors," says Macrobius, "denominated the master father of the family, and the slave domestic, with the intention of removing all odium from the condition of the master, and all contempt from that of the servant." Could this language be applied to the present state of West India slavery?

Thomas Clarkson - The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade by the British Parliament (1808): Volume II

That Cincius wrote a book on the old Roman calendar, we are told by Macrobius; that he examined into ancient Etruscan and Roman chronology, is clear from Livy." The point in which he differed from the other authorities most strikingly is the date he assigns for the origin of the city; but Niebuhr thinks that his method of ascertaining it shows independent investigation.

Charles Thomas Cruttwell - The History of Roman Literature : From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius

North of the Mare Crisium, and northwest of Macrobius, we find a much larger mountain ring, oblong in shape and nearly eighty miles in its greatest diameter. It is named Cleomenes. The highest point on its wall is about 10,000 feet above the interior.

Garrett Putman Serviss - Pleasures of the telescope: An Illustrated Guide for Amateur Astronomers and a Popular: Description of the Chief Wonders of the Heavens for General: Readers