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Macrobius, fully Macrobius Ambrosius Theodosius, also known as Theodosius, was a Roman provincial who lived during the early fifth century, at the transition of the Roman to the Byzantine Empire, and when Latin was as widespread as Greek among the elite. He is primarily known for his writings, which include the widely copied and read Commentarii in Somnium Scipionis ("Commentary on the Dream of Scipio"), which was one of the most important sources for Platonism in the Latin West during the Middle Ages, the Saturnalia, a compendium of ancient Roman religious and antiquarian lore, and De differentiis et societatibus graeci latinique verbi ("On the Differences and Similarities of the Greek and Latin Verb"), which is now lost. ...more

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“Certain portions of the earth, escaping utter destruction, become the seedbeds for replenishing the human race, and so it happens that on a world that is not young there are young populations having no culture, whose traditions were swept away in a debacle; they wander over the earth and gradually put aside the roughness of a nomadic existence and by natural inclunation submit to communities and associations; their mode of living is at first simple, knowking no guile and strange to cunning, called in its early stage the Golden Age. [16] The more these populations progress in civilization and employment of the arts, the more easily does the spirit of rivalry creep in, at first commendable but imperceptibly changing to envy; this, then, is responsible for all the tribulations that the race suffers in subsequent ages. So much for the vicissitudes that civilizations experience, of perishing and arising again, as the world goes on unchanged.
[Chapter X - 15,16]”
Ambrosius Theodosius Macrobius, Commentary on the Dream of Scipio

“(…) il existe des hordes sauvages qui ont perdu jusqu'à la trace des connaissances de leurs ancêtres. Insensiblement leurs mœurs s'adoucissent ; elles se réunissent sous l'empire de la loi naturelle : l'ignorance du mal et une franchise grossière leur tiennent lieu de vertus. Cette époque est pour elle le siècle d'or. L'accroissement des arts et de l'industrie vient bientôt après donner plus d'activité à l'émulation ; mais ce sentiment si noble dans son origine produit bientôt l'envie, qui ronge sourdement les cœurs. Dès lors commencent, pour cette société naissante, tous les maux qui l'affligeront un jour.

Telle est l'alternative de destruction et de reproduction à laquelle est assujetti le genre humain, sans que la stabilité du monde en souffre.”
Ambrosius Theodosius Macrobius, Commentary on the Dream of Scipio

“Since, from the Supreme God Mind arises, and from Mind, Soul, and since this in turn creates all subsequent thungs and fills them all with life....and since all things follow in continuous succession, degenerating in sequence to the very bottom of the series, the attentive observer will discover a connexion of parts, from the Supreme God down to the last dregs of things, mutually linked together and without a break. And this is Homer's golden chain, which God, he says, bade hang down from heaven to earth.”
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