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In our company was an eminent philosopher of the Stoic sect, whom I had known at Athens as a man of no slight importance, holding the young men who were his..

Aulus Gellius

2nd century Roman author and grammarian

Aulus Gellius (c.

125 – after 180 AD) was a Roman author and grammarian, who was probably born and certainly brought up in Rome. He was educated in Athens, after which he returned to Rome.

Aulus Gellius was a scholar of the 2nd century CE who lived in Rome apart from a visit to Greece, the author of a miscellany in twenty books and some four.

  • Aulus Gellius was a scholar of the 2nd century CE who lived in Rome apart from a visit to Greece, the author of a miscellany in twenty books and some four.
  • The Attic Nights of Aulus Gellius, translated by John Carew Rolfe (),(Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. ).
  • In our company was an eminent philosopher of the Stoic sect, whom I had known at Athens as a man of no slight importance, holding the young men who were his.
  • Aulus Gellius (ca.
  • This comprehensive study examines his life and writings.

    • He is famous for his Attic Nights, a commonplace book, or compilation of notes on grammar, philosophy, history, antiquarianism, and other subjects, preserving fragments of the works of many authors who might otherwise be unknown today.

    Name

    Medieval manuscripts of the Noctes Atticae commonly gave the author's name in the form of "Agellius", which is used by Priscian; Lactantius, Servius and Saint Augustine had "A. Gellius" instead.

    Scholars from the Renaissance onwards hotly debated which one of the two transmitted names is correct (the other one being presumably a corruption) before settling on the latter of the two in modern times.[1]

    Life

    The only source for the life of Aulus Gellius is the details