Aulus Gellius, who lived in Rome un the mid-second century AD, wrote his Noctes Atticae in twenty books; of this most survives and only lacks the beginning, end, and all of book 8 bar the chapter headings. The work is a collection of end, and all of book 8 bar the chapter headings. The work is a collection of mainly short chapters dealing with a great variety of topics including philosophy, history, law, grammar, and literary criticism. Gellius began collecting the material while a student in Athens, and assembled it later in life with the specific purpose of entertaining and instructing his...
Aulus Gellius, who lived in Rome un the mid-second century AD, wrote his Noctes Atticae in twenty books; of this most survives and only lacks the begi...
Aulus Gellius (ca. 123170 CE) is known almost wholly from his "Noctes Atticae, " 'Attic Nights', so called because it was begun during the nights of an Attic winter. The work collects in twenty books (of Book VIII only the index is extant) interesting notes covering philosophy, history, biography, all sorts of antiquities, points of law, literary criticism, and lexicographic matters, explanations of old words and questions of grammar. The work is valuable because of its many excerpts from other authors whose works are lost; and because of its evidence for people's manners and occupations....
Aulus Gellius (ca. 123170 CE) is known almost wholly from his "Noctes Atticae, " 'Attic Nights', so called because it was begun during the nights ...
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"Noctes Atticae - Liber II" from Aulus Gellius. Aulus Gellius (c. 125 - after 180 AD) was a Latin author and grammarian, who was probably born and certainly brought up in Rome.
"Noctes Atticae - Liber II" from Aulus Gellius. Aulus Gellius (c. 125 - after 180 AD) was a Latin author and grammarian, who was probably born and cer...
"Noctes Atticae - Liber III" from Aulus Gellius. Aulus Gellius (c. 125 - after 180 AD) was a Latin author and grammarian, who was probably born and certainly brought up in Rome.
"Noctes Atticae - Liber III" from Aulus Gellius. Aulus Gellius (c. 125 - after 180 AD) was a Latin author and grammarian, who was probably born and ce...
"Noctes Atticae - Liber IV" from Aulus Gellius. Aulus Gellius (c. 125 - after 180 AD) was a Latin author and grammarian, who was probably born and certainly brought up in Rome.
"Noctes Atticae - Liber IV" from Aulus Gellius. Aulus Gellius (c. 125 - after 180 AD) was a Latin author and grammarian, who was probably born and cer...
"Noctes Atticae - Liber V" from Aulus Gellius. Aulus Gellius (c. 125 - after 180 AD) was a Latin author and grammarian, who was probably born and certainly brought up in Rome.
"Noctes Atticae - Liber V" from Aulus Gellius. Aulus Gellius (c. 125 - after 180 AD) was a Latin author and grammarian, who was probably born and cert...
"Noctes Atticae - Liber VI" from Aulus Gellius. Aulus Gellius (c. 125 - after 180 AD) was a Latin author and grammarian, who was probably born and certainly brought up in Rome.
"Noctes Atticae - Liber VI" from Aulus Gellius. Aulus Gellius (c. 125 - after 180 AD) was a Latin author and grammarian, who was probably born and cer...
"Noctes Atticae - Liber VII" from Aulus Gellius. Aulus Gellius (c. 125 - after 180 AD) was a Latin author and grammarian, who was probably born and certainly brought up in Rome.
"Noctes Atticae - Liber VII" from Aulus Gellius. Aulus Gellius (c. 125 - after 180 AD) was a Latin author and grammarian, who was probably born and ce...
"Noctes Atticae - Liber VIII-IX-X" from Aulus Gellius. Aulus Gellius (c. 125 - after 180 AD) was a Latin author and grammarian, who was probably born and certainly brought up in Rome.
"Noctes Atticae - Liber VIII-IX-X" from Aulus Gellius. Aulus Gellius (c. 125 - after 180 AD) was a Latin author and grammarian, who was probably born ...
