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macrobius

macrobius [CL, LLas proper name of person or (pl.) tribe, MLalso as adj. < μακρόβιος] 1 long-lived. 966 [homo] gustato ligni vetiti fructu ethereos aeterne beatitudinis suggestus ‥ conscendere ~ius confidebat CS 1190 p. 457. 2 (pl.) a race of very tall men (cf. Isid. Etym. XI 3. 26). sunt ibi in custodiam magni viri quasi ~ii, qui sunt xij cubitorum altitudine longi [gl.: a macros, longum, et bios, via [sic], quasi longus in via] Garl. Comm. 163. 3 personal name, esp. Ambrosius Theodosius Macrobius, author of Saturnalia, etc. in libro ~ii de Saturnalibus Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 64; Boethius, ~ius, Lactantius R. Bury Phil. 10. 162.

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