The Dream of Scipio (Latin: Somnium Scipionis), written by Cicero, is the sixth book of De re publica, and describes a (postulated fictional or real)...
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Commentary on Cicero's Dream of Scipio (Latin: Commentarii in Somnium Scipionis) is a philosophical treatise of Macrobius based on the famous dream narrated...
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widely copied and read Commentarii in Somnium Scipionis ("Commentary on the Dream of Scipio") about Somnium Scipionis, which was one of the most important...
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taken by Scipio telling a dream he had: this passage is known as Somnium Scipionis, or "Scipio's dream". In alphabetical order: Fannius, Gaius: Consul...
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this instance." The poem begins with the narrator reading Cicero’s Somnium Scipionis in the hope of learning some "certeyn thing". When he falls asleep...
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general Scipio Aemilianus (185–129 BC) who, according to Cicero's Somnium Scipionis, dreamed that he had to choose between Virtue (behind whom is a steep...
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cingulus australis (southern zone) in referring to the Antipodes in Somnium Scipionis (Dream of Scipio): "Duo [cingulis] sunt habitabiles, quorum australis...
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character in Book VI of Cicero's De re publica, a passage known as the Somnium Scipionis or "Dream of Scipio". Culturally, Scipio Aemilianus was both philhellenic...
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Cicero's Somnium Scipionis described a lengthy dream vision, which in turn was commented on by Macrobius in his Commentarii in Somnium Scipionis. Herodotus...
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cingulus australis ("southern zone") in referring to the Antipodes in Somnium Scipionis ("Dream of Scipio"). The land (terra in Latin) in this zone was the...
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