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Times and Distances Series 7:
Distribution of Hospitable and Inhospitable Land, Italy 950 CE
from Ambrosius Theodosius Macrobius, "Commentarius in Somnium Scipionis", MS Msc.Class.38, f. 20r, Staatsbibliothek Bamberg.
#CSMBR #Macrobius #EnvironmentalHumanities #Cicero #Land
@daatdarling Empirical consciousness was made ineffective in the intentional promiscuity of the orgy. Saturn, the Golden Age, and no social distinctions because of the association "with 'no division into bond and free' during Saturn's reign" recall a participation in this state.
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“What do you make of the fact that all of Vergil’s work is made as sort of mirroring of Homer’s”?
Quid, quod et omne opus Virgilianum velut de quodam Homerici opus speculo formatum est? #Macrobius
“What do you make of the fact that all of Vergil’s work is made as sort of mirroring of Homer’s”?
Quid, quod et omne opus Virgilianum velut de quodam Homerici opus speculo formatum est? #Macrobius
“But these assertions are enough to support the thesis I have proposed.”
sed ad fidem rei propositae relata sufficient #Macrobius
What sort of god I am, learn as I instruct you:
the heavenly cosmos is my head, the sea my belly,
the earth my feet, my ears rest in the ether,
my far-gleaming eye is the bright light of the sun.
- Hymn to Sarapis; preserved by #Macrobius, '#Saturnalia I.20.17
“I could show with numerous examples how much the authors of our ancient canon have lifted from one another.”
Et, ut de alienigenis taceam, possem pluribus edocere quantum se mutuo conpilarint bibliothecae veteris auctores. #Macrobius
“Who is there, who doesn’t know that he was often called the ‘consular clown’ by his enemies?”
Quis item nescit consularem eum scurram ab inimicis appellari solitum? #Macrobius on #Cicero
“…a professor should know nothing more than the explanation of individual words”
tamquam nihil ultra verborum explanationem liceat nosse grammatico. #Macrobius
“They say that Saturn used to devour his children and vomit them back up…”
Hunc aiunt filios suos solitum devorare, eosdemque rursus evomere #Macrobius
“The faculty of propagation through eternity was eventually transferred from water to Venus…”
Animalium vero aeternam propagationem ad Venerem generandi facultas ex humore translata est #Macrobius
“The Romans call him Mr. Manure (Sterculium) because he first granted fertility to the fields with shit (stercus).”
Hunc Romani etiam Sterculium vocant, quod primus stercore fecunditatem agris conparaverit. #Macrobius
“we should speak with people as though the gods were listening; we should speak with the gods as though people were listening.”
sic loquendum esse cum hominibus, tamquam dii audiant; sic loquendum cum diis, tamquam homines audient #Macrobius
‘This, my dear Evangelus, is the great glory of Vergil: he gains by no one’s praise, and is diminished by no one’s censure.”
Haec est quidem, Evangele, Maronis gloria, ut nullius laudibus crescat, nullius vituperatione minuatur #Macrobius
“I want the present work to be like this: containing many arts, many lessons, and the examples of many ages, all blown together into one book.”
Tale hoc praesens opus volo: multae in illo artes, multa praecepta sint, multarum aetatum exempla, sed in unum conspirata
#Macrobius
“I ask you, who forced you to commit that for which, before you have even done it, you have asked to be pardoned?”
Te, inquit, oro, quis perpulit ut id committeres quod, priusquam faceres, peteres ut ignosceretur? #Macrobius
“What do you make of the fact that all of Vergil’s work is made as sort of mirroring of Homer’s”?
Quid, quod et omne opus Virgilianum velut de quodam Homerici opus speculo formatum est? #Macrobius
“Chance assigns you a condition, but you give yourself a character.”
sibi quisque dat mores, condicionem casus adsignat. #Macrobius #SweetDreams
‘I would flee a rare and uncustomary word as though it were a rocky cliff.'
tamquam scopulum, sic fugiam infrequens atque insolens verbum.’ #Caesar according to #Macrobius
“What do you make of the fact that all of Vergil’s work is made as sort of mirroring of Homer’s”?
Quid, quod et omne opus Virgilianum velut de quodam Homerici opus speculo formatum est? #Macrobius
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