The Extant Works of Macrobius, Vol. 2

DISPUTATIONS

WHICH MACROBIUS INSERTED INTO THE BOOKS OF THE SATURNALIA

Book I.
Pref. The author explains his plan.
c. 1. He demonstrates how he is to carry it out.
c. 2. Postumianus promises Decius that he will report 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 doubtful forms of cases, noctu futura, die crastini, Saturnaliorum;
c. 5. Vettius on the diction of a thousand words.

The first day of the Saturnalia

1. before dinner
   c. 6. Vettius on his cognomen and on the toga praetexta;
   c. 7. Vettius and Evangelus on the true rationale of conversations, on uninvited
   feasts, 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;
   c. 12. on how Romulus ordered the year,
   § 18 sqq. (on Maia, on the Great Mother, on Bona Dea)
   c. 13. on how Numa,
   c. 14. on how Julius Caesar and Augustus;
   c. 15. on the Kalends, Ides, and Nones,
   c. 16. on festival, working, and lawful days, etc.;
   § 38 sqq. Eustathius, on what Julius Caesar borrowed from the Egyptians and the Greeks;