MARTIANUS MINNEUS See also:

• FELIX
• FELIX, ANTONIUS
• FELIX, LIA (1830– )

FELIX See also:

• MARTIANUS MINNEUS FELIX CAPELLA

CAPELLA  , Latin writer, according to See also:

• CASSIODORUS (not Cassiodorius)

Cassiodorus a native of Madaura in See also:

• AFRICA
• AFRICA, ROMAN

Africa, flourished during the 5th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century, certainly before the See also:

• YEAR

year 439 . He appears to have practised as a lawyer at See also:

• CARTHAGE
• CARTHAGE (Phoenician Kart-hadshat, " New City "; Gr. Kapxn5c; v, Lat. Carthago or Carchedon)
• CARTHAGE, SYNODS OF

Carthage and to have been in easy circumstances . His curious encyclopaedic See also:

• WORK

work, entitled Satyricon, or De Nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii et de septem Artibus liberalibus libri novem, is an elaborate See also:

• ALLEGORY (iXXos, other, and ayopeuav, to speak)

allegory in nine books, written in a mixture of See also:

• PROSE

prose and See also:

• VERSE (from Lat. versus, literally a line or furrow drawn by turning the plough, from vertere, and afterwards signifying an arrangement of syllables into feet)

verse, after the manner of the Menippean satires of See also:

• VARRO, MARCUS TERENTIUS (116—27 B.C.)
• VARRO, PUBLIUS TERENTIUS

Varro . The See also:

• STYLE
• STYLE (from Gr. a-6'1ms, a column; a different word from that used in literature, see below)

style is heavy and involved, loaded with See also:

• METAPHOR

metaphor and bizarre expressions, and verbose to excess . The first two books contain the allegory proper—the See also:

• MARRIAGE

marriage of See also:

• MERCURY
• MERCURY (MERCU1uus)
• MERCURY (symbol Hg, atomic weight = 2oo)

Mercury to a nymph named Philologia . The remaining seven books contain expositions of the seven liberal arts, which then comprehended all human knowledge . See also:

• BOOK

Book iii. treats of See also:

• GRAMMAR (from Lat. grammatica, sc. ars; Gr. ypaµ)

grammar, iv. of dialectics, v. of See also:

• RHETORIC (Gr. psroperctj TEXvq, the art of the orator)

rhetoric, vi. of See also:

• GEOMETRY

geometry, vii. of See also:

• ARITHMETIC (Gr. apeOµ7run7, sc. TEXVn, the art of counting, from (ipLBµos, number)

arithmetic, viii. of See also:

• ASTRONOMY (from Gr. &arpov, a star, and v ,usiv, to classify or arrange)

astronomy, ix. of See also:

• MUSIC

music . These abstract discussions are linked on to the See also:

• ORIGINAL

original allegory by the See also:

• DEVICE

device of personifying each See also:

• SCIENCE (Lat. scientia, from scire; to learn, know)

science as a courtier of Mercury and Philologia . The work was a See also:

• COMPLETE

complete See also:

• ENCYCLOPAEDIA

encyclopaedia of the liberal culture of the See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time, and was in high repute during the See also:

• MIDDLE

middle ages . The author's See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief See also:

• SOURCES

sources were Varro, See also:

• PLINY, THE ELDER
• PLINY, THE YOUNGER

Pliny, See also:

• SOLINUS, GAIUS JULIUS

Solinus, See also:

• AQUILA
• AQUILA ('AxdXas), (1)
• AQUILA, CASPAR [KASPAR ADLER] (1488-1560)
• AQUILA, SERAFINO

Aquila See also:

• ROMANUS

Romanus, and See also:

• ARISTIDES
• ARISTIDES ['Apuvrei817s] (c. 530—468 B.C.)
• ARISTIDES, AELIUS
• ARISTIDES, APOLOGY OF
• ARISTIDES, QUINTILIANUS

Aristides Quintilianus . His prose resembles that of See also:

• APULEIUS, LUCIUS

Apuleius (also a native of Madaura), but is even more difficult . The verse portions, which are on the whole correct and classically constructed, are in See also:

• IMITATION (Lat. imitatio, from intitari, to imitate)

imitation of Varro and are less tiresome .

A passage in book viii. contains a very clear statement of the See also:

• HELIOCENTRIC

heliocentric See also:

• SYSTEM

system of astronomy . It has been supposed that See also:

• COPERNICUS (or KOPPERNIGK), NICOLAUS (1473-1543)

Copernicus, who quotes See also:

• CAPELLA, MARTIANUS MINNEUS FELIX

Capella, may have received from this work some hints towards his own new system . Editio princeps, by F . Vitalis Bodianus, 1499; the best See also:

• MODERN

modern edition is that of F . Eyssenhardt (1866); for the relationof Martianus Capella to Aristides Quintilianus see H . Deiters, Studien zu den griechischen Musikern (,88,) . In the 11th century the See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German See also:

• MONK (O.Eng. munuc; this with the Teutonic forms, e.g. Du. monnik, Ger. Witch, and the Romanic, e.g. Fr. moine, Ital. monacho and Span. monje, are from the Lat. monachus, adaptedfrom Gr. µovaXos, one living alone, a solitary; Own, alone)
• MONK (or MONCK), GEORGE
• MONK, JAMES HENRY (1784-1856)
• MONK, MARIA (c. 1817—1850)

monk See also:

• NOTKER

Notker See also:

• LABEO, MARCUS ANTISTIUS (c. 50 B.C.–A.D. 18)

Labeo translated the first two books into Old High German .