The Extant Works of Macrobius, Vol. 2

PREFACE.

Diodorus original: "Diodorus IV. [c. 4.]" reports that the nocturnal Dionysus was born of Jupiter and Proserpina. Just as Medentius is for Septidonium, so Sabadius is for Mesentius, Septisonium, and Sabazius. Regarding Sabazius Bacchus, see the scholia of Aristophanes on the Wasps, p. 132 b. c. [v. 9.], and more extensively on the Birds, p. 563 a. p. 12 a. [v. 574 and 878.], as well as Spencer on Origen. Add to Real-Enc. under the word "Sabazius" and Salmasius, Exercitationes Plinianae, p. 884. b. G. — 18, 16. Amplio meaning: "I increase/enlarge". For Scaliger indeed confuses Naevius with Laevius at times. See Theodorus Ryckius, Dissertation on the Arrival of Aeneas in Italy. — 18, 19. Iao a name for God is also called Jehovah by Origen, Commentary on John, vol. II, p. 45. Add Scaliger at the end of De Emendatione Temporis On the Correction of Time, and H. Sanford on the descent of Christ to the underworld, and Spencer on Origen against Celsus, book VI, p. 81. a. — 19, 16. The scholiast of Thucydides, at C. I. p. 36. Stephanus, and Dion Chrysostom, in oration VII [9.], describe chrestia acts of kindness/goodness in nearly the same way, except that they neglect the wings on either side; these are added in an old bronze coin of Drusus, son of Tiberius, in Torrentius on Suetonius, Caligula, ch. XIII, p. 290. — 20, 5. Ventura things about to come are dragged from the manuscripts of Virgil. — 21, 12. At the end. From Plutarch and Clement of Alexandria, see these matters well explained by Alexander Donatus in book I of On the City of Rome. — 22, 1. Virtue is a goddess here, too. Aristotle, Ethics, II, 9: "Nemesis is the mean between envy and malice; and soon, the one who is resentful feels pain at those who fare well undeservedly." — 22, 7. See regarding this love in Fed. Morellus on the oration of Dion of Prusa, VI, p. 22. Add Alexander, Physical Problems, I, 134: "Some mythologize that Echo is a daemon. Others say that Pan, having felt resentment, struck the love of Echo into Pan." Anonymous On Incredible Things, II, ib. p. 323 sq.: "Honoring the strategy of Pan, we sing of Echo as beloved to Pan." — 22, 8. Priapus is also the sun. See the scholia of the Anthology, p. 477. "Priapesian Apollo." Tzetzes on Lycophron, p. 6. b. — 23, 11. Insanity is a vice of the mind. Why should we trifle?

Saturnalia II, 2, 6. I would prefer Maevia married to Gallus. — 5, 2. So also Velleius [II, 100, 3] correctly. See H. Norisius, Cenotaphia Pisana, day II, ch. VIII, p. 182 sq.

Saturnalia III, 4, 2. The excellent passage of Asconius Pedianus on Cicero's Divinatio must be added, p. 4, ed. Hotoman: Pseudo-Asconius in Div. 1, 3: "There are those who say that temples are locations attributed to individual gods, and shrines are those of many buildings under one roof protected from the rain of a flood. Others call those places 'shrines' (delubra) in which there are basins (labra) for washing the body, after the manner of the Dodonaean Jupiter or Delphic Apollo, in whose shrines cauldrons and tripods are seen. There are also those who think shrines are 'stripped' (delibrata) woods, that is, stripped of bark, placed as images of the gods according to the custom of the ancients, but this is wrong." — 19, 2. V. o. organum instrument. Jo. Bodaeus a Stapel, in his notes on Theophrastus, History of Plants, IV, ch. 6, p. 399, restores from there the "Pelusium" of Columella [V, 10, 19, where "Pelusiana" is read] or the "Petisium" of Pliny [XV, 14, c. 16.]; and soon after, he reads "Tiburtium" instead of "Tibur." See Horace, II, Sat. IV, 70. — 20, 1. Jo. Bodaeus a Stapel corrects "Chacidia" or "Chalcitis" from Columella, in his notes on Theophrastus, IV, 6, p. 383. a. — 20, 4. In the cited passages, "pomum" is a generic apple/fruit, not any tree-born fruit as Macrobius desires. See Jo. Bodaeus a Stapel on Theophrastus, Hist. pl. IV, 6, p. 383. b.

Saturnalia V, 16, 6. "Measure is best in all things." This belongs to Hesiod, not Homer. See Works and Days, v. 312, where it reads: "Observe measures; and due season is best in all things." — 20, 8. The Anthology [II, 40, p. 239] brings this couplet, where see the scholia and Stephanus, note "Gargara," where there is "I groan because I am alone in..." which, as he brought it from an old edition to Zeunius, is wrong. See there, Berkolium. — 21, 12. At the scholiast.