century, giving rise to a long-standing misconception about Martianus's dating.

The lunar crater Capella is named after him.

De nuptiis

This single encyclopedic work, De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii ("On the Marriage of Philology and Mercury"), sometimes called De septem disciplinis ("On the seven disciplines") or the Satyricon, is an elaborate didactic allegory written in a mixture of prose and

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