Macrobius
Autore di Commentary on the Dream of Scipio [translation]
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Opere di Macrobius
Opera [Latin text] 12 copie
Macrobius 7 copie
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- Nome legale
- Macrobius, Ambrosius Theodosius
- Data di nascita
- 0400 fl.
- Data di morte
- 0400 fl.
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Roman Empire
- Attività lavorative
- grammarian
philosopher
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- Voto
- 4.2
- Recensioni
- 15
- ISBN
- 25
- Lingue
- 4
10. At the same time he raises a chilling cry to the stars,
A bellowing just as when a wounded bull flees
The altar and shakes the errant axe from its neck. (A. 2.222-24)
Then he breathed out his spirit and roared, as when a bull
Roars as it is dragged around the lord of Helikon’s shrine
And the Earth-shaker delights in the youths who drag it (Il. 20.403-5)
As the fires swept the human spirit, the ash does not even sing.
In these days, did you ever notice humans singing? Out of joy or sadness?
Or composing in silence poems to the Gods, or uttering words, of anger
Or wrath, of pardon, nobility of filth, to
Emptiness if it must be, laying their woes and gladness upon them?
Even their incantations, invocations, prayers seem to be a thing of a shell
That they charm themselves more into blindness that they are captured by.
… (altro)