Here is the requested Latin text from Macrobius and the corresponding lexical entries from Lewis and Short.
Macrobius (Saturnalia, Book VI, Chapter 5)
...et Egnatius de rerum natura libro primo:
"denique Mulciber ipse ferens altissima caeli.
†contingunt..."[3] Haedique petulci (floribus insultent). Lucretius in secundo: praeterea teneri tremulis in vocibus haedi corniferas norunt matres agnique petulci.
Lewis and Short Entries
Mulcĭber, ēris and ĕri [1]
- Genitive Syncopated: Mulcebri, Cic. poet. Tusc. 2, 10, 23, m.
- Etymology:
[mulceo; he who softens any thing; v. infra] - Definition: A surname of Vulcan: Mulciber, Vulcanus, a molliendo scilicet ferro dictus: mulcere enim mollire, sive lenire est, Paul. ex Fest. p. 144 Müll.; Att. ap. Macr. S. 6, 5 (Trag. Rel. v. 558 Rib.): Mulciber, credo, arma fecit, Plaut. Ep. 1, 1, 32; Ov. A. A. 2, 562: Mulciber in Trojam, Ov. M. 14, 27. Meton., fire: vulnera Mulciber uret, Prop. 4 (5), 1, 65. [1, 2]
noctĭvăgus, a, um, adj. [1]
- Etymology:
[nox-vagus; cf. Quint. 1, 5, 68] - Definition: Night-wandering, that wanders about by night: luna, Verg. A. 10, 216; Val. Fl. 3, 211: cursus (lunae), Claud. Rapt. Pros. 2, 327: animalia, Plin. 32, 11, 53, § 144: nemus, i. e. visited by night, Stat. Th. 9, 574. [1, 2, 3, 4]
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