The Extant Works of Macrobius, Vol. 2 (1848) - Page 24


	why he said (Aen. II, 351 sq.): Excessere omnes .. Di,	§ 7 sq.
	why (Georg. III, 391): Pan niveo lanae munere Lunam	§ 9 sq.
	inlexisse perhibeatur,
	why (Aen. III, 251 sq.) he said: Quae Phoebo pater	§ 11 sqq.
	omnipotens, mihi Phoebus Apollo Praedixit;
Furius,	what Virgil borrowed from the ancient Latin poets in	Lib. VI.
	his verses,	c. 1 sqq.
Caecina,	what he did in the matter of words;	c. 4 sq.
Servius	concerning those things which Virgil himself invented to	c. 6.
	add charm to his discourse;
	concerning the questions which Avienus brought forward	c. 7 sqq.
	about Virgilian passages,
	what the word vexasse (Ecl. VI, 76) signifies,	§ 7 sqq.
	why Busiris (Georg. III, 5) is called inlaudatus,	§ 12 sqq.
	why the tunic (Aen. X, 314) is squalens auro,	§ 17 sqq.
	why Picus (Aen. VII, 187 sq.) is lituo parvaque succinctus trabea;	c. 8.
	what Maturate fugam (Aen. I, 157) means,	§ 7 sqq.
	what vestibulum Orci (Aen. VI, 273) means,	§ 14 sqq.
	what bidentes hostiae (Aen. VII, 93, etc.) are;	c. 9.
	why eques is said for equus (Georg. III, 116),	§ 8 sqq.
	why the Trojan horse (Aen. II, 112) is trabibus contextus acernis.	(§ 13.)

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	2) after dinner	Lib. VII.
Symmachus and Eustathius on whether philosophy should be	c. 1.
	admitted to banquets;
Eustathius	on the questions with which those who are questioned are pleased,	c. 2.
	on the various kinds of jests;	c. 3.
Disarius	on the question proposed by Vettius, whether simple or	c. 4.
	complex food is easier to digest,
Eustathius	objecting, after being provoked by Evangelus;	c. 5.
Flavianus	[on] the nature of wine being closer to cold than to heat;	c. 6.
Disarius,	why women rarely fall into drunkenness, but old men often do;	§ 16 sqq.
Horas	[on] the nature of women being warmer than that of men,	c. 7.
Symmachus	objecting;	§ 8 sqq.
Disarius,	why must (new wine) does not intoxicate,	§ 15 sqq.
	why isicium (minced meat) is difficult to digest,	c. 8.
	why some people digest stronger meats more easily than	§ 4 sqq.
	lighter ones,
	why mustard and pepper do not harm the stomach,	§ 7 sq.
	why wine produced in Egypt is cold,	§ 9 sqq.
	why someone who moves himself in warm water perceives greater heat,	§ 12 sq.
	why warm air moved by a fan acquires cold,	§ 14 sq.
	why those who are often spun in a circle suffer vertigo,	c. 9.
	why the senses are administered by the brain, when the brain	§ 8 sqq.
	itself contains no sense,
	why Homer calls old men polikrotaphous (gray-templed),	c. 10.