The Attic nights of Aulus Gellius

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The Attic nights of Aulus Gellius

with an English translation by John C. Rolfe

(The Loeb classical library, 195, 200, 212)

William Heinemann , Harvard University Press, 1946-1952

Rev. and repr. [ed.]

  • v. 1 : us
  • v. 1 : uk
  • v. 2 : us
  • v. 2 : uk
  • v. 3 : us
  • v. 3 : uk

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Note

First printed 1927

Latin text and English translation on opposite pages

Contents. v. 1. Books I-V -- v. 3. Books XIV-XX

Includes indexes

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Description

Aulus Gellius (ca. 123 170 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. Some at least of the dramatic settings may be genuine occasions. The Loeb Classical Library edition of Attic Nights is in three volumes.

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  • NCID
    BA13811021
  • ISBN
    • 0674992156
    • 0434991953
    • 0674992202
    • 0434992003
    • 0674992342
    • 0434992127
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    englat
  • Place of Publication
    London,Cambridge, Mass.
  • Pages/Volumes
    3 v.
  • Size
    17 cm
  • Classification
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