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Commentary on Cicero's Dream of Scipio (in Latin ''Commentarii in Somnium Scipionis'') is a philosophical treatise of Macrobius based on the famous dream narrated in ''On the republic'' of Cicero (Chapter VI, 9-29), in which Scipion the African the Old appears to his adoptive grandson, Scipion Emiliano, and reveals him his future destination and the one of his country, explains the rewards that await to the virtuous man in the another life, describes the universe and the place of the Earth and the man inside the universe. Macrobius, his author, does not offer an exhaustive comment of the text ''ciceroniano'', but it exposes a series of ''theories on the dreams'' from neoplatónic background, on ''the mystic properties of the numbers'', on ''the nature of the'' ''soul'', on astronomy and on Music. Macrobius quotes a lot of authorities, but is little likely that have read them all or at least the majority. Plotino And Porfirio are his main sources and quotes frequently to Virgil with ornamental purpose. Nevertheless, the work incorporates ideas of the neoplatonism, that are not conserved in a direct form in any another place. The style is quite uneven, since Macrobio copies or translates his sources without unifying the style. == See also == * ''De re publica'' * Macrobius * Cicero * Neoplatonism * Plotin * Porfirius 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Commentarii in Somnium Scipionis」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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