Macrobius

Macrobius, AMBROSIUS THEODOSIUS, a Latin grammarian who flourished about the beginning of the 5th century. He appears to have been by birth a Greek, but literally nothing whatever is known of his life, not even whether he was a Christian or a pagan. Two of his works are extant—a commentary on Cicero's Somnium Scipionis, and Saturnaliorum Conviviorum Libri Septem, a series of historical, mythological, antiquarian, and critical dialogues at third hand. There are editions by Jan (1848–52) and Eyssenhardt (2d ed. 1893), and studies by Linke (1880) and Wissowa (1880).