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In Comnium Scipionis - AURÉLIO TEODÓSIO (Macróbio) In Somnium Scipionis, Lib. II. Saturnaliorum, Lib. VII . Ex variis, ac vetustissimis codicibus recogniti, & aucti. Lugduni: Apud Seb. Gryphium, 1542. a-z, A-R8; 567, [73] pp.; 165 mm. A beautiful edition of the two major works of Macrobius Aurelius Theodosius, his commentary on the famous Dream of Scipio published at the end of Cicero's Republic and Saturnalia, considered by many to be his greatest work. In this work, the Roman author, whose biography is little known, presents several historical, mythological and grammatical notes using dialogue as a literary style, so appreciated by the philosophers of the time, in which each of the characters gathered at a banquet, without any concern for drama, goes through the arguments on the various subjects presented. Its great value lies in the citation of several important classical authors, thus making this work an important source for classical texts during the Middle Ages. The dialogue created by Cicero between Scipio and his deceased grandfather, in which the latter, in a dream, describes to him the life of the good after death, was the pretext used by Macrobius to discourse on the nature of the cosmos. From an astronomical point of view, he also presents a proposal for the size of the diameter of the Sun, which, according to the author, would be twice the diameter of the Earth. Beautiful and rare edition, illustrated with several woodcuts in the text. ! Please note that this translated text was generated by Google. !