Somnium Scipionis

'Somnium Scipionis'; he has 'romanized' the myth of the Republic, adding an argument for the immortality of the soul taken from the Phaedrus, and some other touches derived from the Phaedo and the Timaeus.

The Republic 427? BC-347? BC Plato 1855

'Somnium Scipionis', suggests that this music is too loud for human senses.

The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems Alexander Pope 1716

His most remarkable imitation of Plato is the adaptation of the vision of Er, which is converted by Cicero into the ‘Somnium Scipionis’; he has ‘romanized’ the myth of the Republic, adding an argument for the immortality of the soul taken from the Phaedrus, and some other touches derived from the Phaedo and the Timaeus.

The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett 2006

Nay, it is said he once gave in copy written on the edges of a tall octavo Somnium Scipionis; and as he did not obliterate the original matter, the printer was rather puzzled, and made a funny jumble between the letterpress Latin and the manuscript English.

The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author John Hill Burton

Books; but until 1822 the _Somnium Scipionis_, extracted by Macrobius from Book vi., was the only portion of the work known to exist, with the exception of a few fragments.

The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

Besides his commentary on the _Somnium Scipionis_ of Cicero, Macrobius wrote a work in seven Books on Roman literature and antiquities with the title of _Saturnalia_.

The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

Foules_ telling, out of Cicero's _Somnium Scipionis_, how the great

Poetry Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

Cicero affected by this revival; his Somnium Scipionis and other later works.

The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884

[76] A well-known fragment of the sixth book, the _Somnium Scipionis_, is preserved in Macrobius.

The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Charles Thomas Cruttwell 1879

_Mens cujusque is est Quisque_, from the _Somnium Scipionis_ of Cicero; and a third bearing his initials, with two anchors crossed, together with his motto.

English Book Collectors William Younger Fletcher 1871