Editing Macrobius (section)

==Name==
Macrobius's [[given name]] ({{lang|la|[[praenomen]]}}) is unrecorded as is his [[family name]] ({{lang|la|[[nomen gentilicium|nomen]]}}). His recorded name is a series of three surnames ({{lang|la|[[cognomina]]}}), properly ordered Macrobius Ambrosius Theodosius. This is what appears in the earliest surviving manuscripts of the {{lang|la|Saturnalia}} and how he is addressed in the excerpts from his lost {{lang|la|De Differentiis}}. He is called "Macrobius Theodosius" in both [[Cassiodorus]] and [[Boethius]] and was apparently known during his lifetime as "Theodosius": The [[dedication (publishing)|dedication]] of {{lang|la|De Differentiis}} is "Theodosius to his Symmachus" ({{lang|la|Theodosius Symmacho suo}}) and he addressed as "the very greatest Theodosius" ({{lang|la|Theodosi optime}}) in a dedicatory epistle to [[Avianus]]'s ''Fables''. This was mistakenly reversed in later manuscripts to "Ambrosius Theodosius Macrobius", which James Willis then used in his edition of the ''Commentary''.<ref name="Cameron1966">{{Cite journal |last=Cameron |first=Alan |date=1966-11-01 |title=The date and identity of Macrobius |journal=Journal of Roman Studies |language=en |volume=56 |issue=1–2 |pages=25–38 |doi=10.2307/300131 |issn=0075-4358 |jstor=300131}}</ref>{{rp|p=27}}