DISPUTATIONS

WHICH MACROBIUS INSERTED INTO THE BOOKS OF THE SATURNALIA

DIGESTED BY DAYS.

Book I.

Preface. The author explains his plan.
c. 1. He demonstrates how he is to execute this.
c. 2. Postumianus promises Decius that he will relate to him the conversations held during the Saturnalia at the home of Vettius Praetextatus and others.
§ 15. The narrative begins.

The day before the Saturnalia

c. 3. Caecina on the beginning and end of the civil day;
c. 4. Servius on the doubtful forms of cases, of the night to come, of the day of the morrow, of the Saturnalia;
c. 5. Vettius on the expression a thousand words.

On the first day of the Saturnalia

c. 6. Vettius on his own cognomen and on the toga praetexta;
c. 7. Vettius and Evangelus on the true rationale of conversations, on uninvited banquets, on the number of guests;
§ 18 sqq. Vettius on the origin of the Saturnalia,
c. 8. on Saturn,
c. 9. on Janus,
c. 10. on the days of the Saturnalia,
c. 11. on slaves,
§ 47 sqq. on the Sigillaria small figures/gifts;
c. 12. how Romulus ordered the year,
§ 18 sqq. (on Maia, on the Great Mother, on the Bona Dea)
c. 13. how Numa [ordered the year],
c. 14. how Julius Caesar and Augustus [ordered the year];
c. 15. on the Kalends, Ides, Nones,
c. 16. on festival, non-festival, and fast days, etc.;
§ 38 sqq. Eustathius, what Julius Caesar borrowed from the Egyptians and the Greeks;