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Aulus Gellius (ca.
125 - after
180),
Latin author and grammarian, possibly of African origin, probably born and certainly brought up at
Rome.
He studied
grammar and
rhetoric at Rome and
philosophy at
Athens, after which he returned to Rome, where he held a judicial office. His teachers and friends included many distinguished men —
Sulpicius Apollinaris,
Herodes Atticus and
Fronto.
His only work, the
Attic Nights (in Latin:
Noctes Atticae), takes its name from having been begun during the long nights of a winter which he spent in
Attica. He afterwards continued it at Rome. It is compiled out of an
Adversaria, or commonplace book, in which he'd jotted down everything of unusual interest that he heard in conversation or read in books, and it comprises notes on grammar,
geometry, philosophy,
history and almost every other branch of knowledge.
The work, deliberately devoid of sequence or arrangement, is divided into twenty books. All these have come down to us except the eighth, of which nothing remains but the index. The
Attic Nights are valuable for the insight they afford into the nature of the society and pursuits of those times, and for its many excerpts from works of lost ancient authors.
One story is
Androclus, which is often compiled into collections of
Aesop's fables (but isn't found there).
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