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Asia (search for this): book 2, sectio P7
the stars"; there was not in B.'s time any hard and fast distinction between astronomy and astrology; here we would think of astronomy. ad: "[compared] to." puncti . . . rationem: "the ratio of a point"; ratio was already used in later Latin in the modern arithmetical sense. id est, ut: introducing the result of the comparison just made. The "known world" was believed to fill only one-fourth of the globe, from Europe to Asia, bounded by the arctic, by the oceans, and by uninhabitable burning desert to the south. ( Ptolomaeo: see on 1M2.12.) nobis: dative depending on cognitis . Even in the inhabited portion of the globe, there is so little habitable land that the arena for human activity is as small compared to the whole planet as the planet is small compared to the cosmos. Huic quartae: dative with verb of taking away. quantum . . . quantumque: relatives
Europe (search for this): book 2, sectio P7
ience of the stars"; there was not in B.'s time any hard and fast distinction between astronomy and astrology; here we would think of astronomy. ad: "[compared] to." puncti . . . rationem: "the ratio of a point"; ratio was already used in later Latin in the modern arithmetical sense. id est, ut: introducing the result of the comparison just made. The "known world" was believed to fill only one-fourth of the globe, from Europe to Asia, bounded by the arctic, by the oceans, and by uninhabitable burning desert to the south. ( Ptolomaeo: see on 1M2.12.) nobis: dative depending on cognitis . Even in the inhabited portion of the globe, there is so little habitable land that the arena for human activity is as small compared to the whole planet as the planet is small compared to the cosmos. Huic quartae: dative with verb of taking away. quantum . . . quantumque:
Caucasus (search for this): book 2, sectio P7
M. Tulli: Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 - 43 B.C.), the orator. quodam loco: Cicero, De Republica 6.22, recounting the famous dream of Scipio ( Somnium Scipionis ) on which Macrobius wrote a commentary in the fifth century. B.'s father-in-law Symmachus had arranged for the Macrobius work to be copied under his aegis. Caucasus: Cicero and B. seem to have used this name for different mountains: Cicero the Himalayas, B. the modern Caucasus between the Black and Caspian Seas. adulta: sc. res publica . Parthis . . . ceterisque . . . gentibus: datives with formidolosa . id locorum: see on 2P4.7. quam Although the first two quam are adverbial, the final is a relative pronoun, antecedent gloria . dilatare: "to broaden, expand." ubi: here virtually of place "to which," for quo . Quid quod: "What of the fact that .
Himalayas (search for this): book 2, sectio P7
M. Tulli: Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 - 43 B.C.), the orator. quodam loco: Cicero, De Republica 6.22, recounting the famous dream of Scipio ( Somnium Scipionis ) on which Macrobius wrote a commentary in the fifth century. B.'s father-in-law Symmachus had arranged for the Macrobius work to be copied under his aegis. Caucasus: Cicero and B. seem to have used this name for different mountains: Cicero the Himalayas, B. the modern Caucasus between the Black and Caspian Seas. adulta: sc. res publica . Parthis . . . ceterisque . . . gentibus: datives with formidolosa . id locorum: see on 2P4.7. quam Although the first two quam are adverbial, the final is a relative pronoun, antecedent gloria . dilatare: "to broaden, expand." ubi: here virtually of place "to which," for quo . Quid quod: "What o
106 BC - 143 BC (search for this): book 2, sectio P7
s ). The first quantum is accusative; the second is adverbial. quodam: here, "as it were, so to speak." artata: < arto , "compress." habitaculi: "dwelling-place." saeptum: used of any small penned-in area. insolentia: "un-accustomedness, infrequency." non modo: for non modo non . urbium: sc. fama . M. Tulli: Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 - 43 B.C.), the orator. quodam loco: Cicero, De Republica 6.22, recounting the famous dream of Scipio ( Somnium Scipionis ) on which Macrobius wrote a commentary in the fifth century. B.'s father-in-law Symmachus had arranged for the Macrobius work to be copied under his aegis. Caucasus: Cicero and B. seem to have used this name for different mountains: Cicero the Himalayas, B. the modern Caucasus between the Black and Caspian Seas.