The Extant Works of Macrobius, Vol. 2 (1848) - Page 22


Vettius on the fact that all gods are to be referred to the sun,	c. 17 sqq.
Apollo,	§ 7 sqq.
Liber Pater,	c. 18.
Mars and Mercury,	c. 19.
Aesculapius, Hercules, Serapis, and Isis,	c. 20.
Adonis, Attis, Osiris, Horus, the twelve signs of the zodiac,	c. 21.
Nemesis, Pan (Janus), Saturn,	c. 22.
Jupiter and the Assyrian god Adad.	c. 23.
Symmachus defends Virgil from the insults of Evangelus.	c. 24.
The disputations to be held in the following days are indicated.	§ 14 sqq.


	Book II.
Avienus and Vettius on the gravity of this gathering;	c. 1.
Symmachus on the jests of the ancients and noble men.	§ 8 sqq.
Having brought forward those things that came to each man's	c. 2.
mind regarding such sayings, they discuss
Symmachus on the jests of Cicero;	c. 3.
Avienus on the jests that Augustus offered and endured,	c. 4.
on the sayings and morals of Julia,	c. 5.
on the honorable jests of certain men,	c. 6.
on Laberius and Publius Syrus, on Pylades and Hylas;	c. 7.
Caecina on desserts;	c. 8.
Eustathius (after Evangelus encouraged them to indulge	§ 4 sqq.
in wine by the authority of a Platonic decree), on what
Plato, Aristotle, and Hippocrates decided concerning wine and
lusts. (The rest is missing.)

The second day of the Saturnalia


Eustathius on Virgil's astrology and philosophy;
Flavianus on his knowledge of augural law;
Vettius on his knowledge of pontifical law;	Book III.
(The beginning is missing.)
why he said (Aen. II, 719): Donec me flumine vivo Abluero,	c. 1 sqq.
why (Aen. V, 238): Porriciam in fluctus,	c. 2.
why (ib. 237): voti reus,	§ 6.
why (Aen. IV, 219): arasque tenentem;	§ 8 sqq.
what vitulari means,	§ 11 sqq.
what is sacred, what profane, what holy, what	c. 3.
religious,
what a delubrum is,	c. 4.
who are the proper gods of the Romans, i.e., the Penates,	§ 6 sqq.
what types of sacrificial victims;	c. 5.
why he called Mezentius (Aen. VII, 648) contemptor divum;	§ 9 sqq.
on Virgil's doctrine concerning foreign rites;	c. 6.
why he called Apollo (Aen. III, 89) father,	§ 2 sqq.
why he called Hercules (Aen. VIII, 362) victor;	§ 9 sqq.