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Wednesday, 11 September 2019
Aulus Gellius: real tears.
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Aulus Gellius (125 – after 180) is an ideal author for providing short anecdotes in not too difficult Latin. The following story is about ...
Monday, 18 February 2019
Gellius 1.19. Burning oracles.
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One of the most amusing books in Latin must be the Noctes Atticae of Attic Nights by Aulus Gellius (125 – after 180). It is a compendium o...
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Thursday, 24 September 2015
Gellius on the ridiculous word bibosus.
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Aulus Gellius (125-180) was an avid reader and when he stayed at Athens he read during the evening and wrote down what seems to him s...
Saturday, 25 April 2015
Aulus Gellius: why Socrates could endure his wife and how Tarquinius came into the possession of the Sibylline books.
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Aulus Gellius (125 - after 180 AD) was a Roman grammarian, antiquarian, philosopher and writer. He is hardly read anymore – I can’t rem...
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