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    (1911). "Gellius, Aulus". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 11 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 558. P. K. Marshall, "Aulus Gellius" in Texts and...
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    Although he was normally taken as the north wind, the Roman writers Aulus Gellius and Pliny the Elder both took Boreas as a northeast wind, equivalent...
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    vicinity. Pliny, Bk. 18, Ch.77, (p.116) Aulus Gellius, Attic Nights Lib. II, Ch. 22 (Gk: p.95; Eng: p.146) Aulus Gellius (Lat: 96; Eng: 148) Thompson (1918:...
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  • Gabinius Aulus Gellius Aulus Hirtius - consul after Caesar Aulus Licinius Archias Aulus Licinius Nerva Silianus Aulus Metellus or Aule Metele Aulus Paulinus...
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  • 1946) is an English classical scholar, an authority on the works of Aulus Gellius, and a former reader for the Oxford University Press. He is married...
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    Roman counterpart is Vulturnus, according to Pliny the Elder; but for Aulus Gellius Volturnus was the equivalent of the southeast wind Euronotus. In the...
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    Ausonius also mentions it in his sixteenth Epistle to Probus, as does Aulus Gellius in the Noctes Atticae (XVII.21). "Probably a chronological summary which...
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    poem by Vincent Bourne dating from 1716–17 is based on the account of Aulus Gellius. Titled Mutua Benevolentia primaria lex naturae est, it was translated...
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  • to us. He is occasionally identified with Apollo and young Jupiter. Aulus Gellius, in the Noctes Atticae, written around 177 CE, speculated that Vejovis...
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    goddess of death. She was believed to preside over infants who died. Aulus Gellius understood her name to be the similar as Morea. Morta’s name most likely...
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  • were collected by Hermann Peter. The largest fragment is preserved in Aulus Gellius, and concerns a single combat between T. Manlius Torquatus and a Gaul...
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    Antiquitates Romanae XI 39, 1. Plutarch Publicola, 16 Aulus Gellius Noct. Att. IV, 5; Gellius writes that the episode was recorded in the XI book of...
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  • infamous. Aulus Gellius provides a brief, but different, view of Peregrinus. He describes Peregrinus as "a man of dignity and fortitude," and Aulus would...
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    remarks that Gellius does not state sacrificium humanum but only states...immolaturque ritu humano capra. Livy VIII 9, 6. Gellius V 12, 12. Gellius V 12. The...
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    urcornebe condita, 1,20. By the Imperial era authors Livy, Plutarch, and Aulus Gellius: see Cornell, T., The beginnings of Rome: Italy and Rome from the Bronze...
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    were considered classical, or recepti scriptores ("select writers"). Aulus Gellius includes authors like Plautus, who are considered writers of Old Latin...
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  • cup and the tip of the lip." This verse was proverbial at the time of Aulus Gellius (2nd century), who mentions it in his comment on the Latin phrase inter...
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  • century CE) was a Stoic philosopher. Very little is known about his life. Aulus Gellius mentions him as one of his contemporaries, and describes him as a "grave...
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    Macrobius alone. There are also ancient writings on this topic from Aulus Gellius when speaking on how Romans swore oaths. He mentioned that Roman women...
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  • occurred during the same period. The lyrics of Catullus, whom the writer Aulus Gellius called "the most elegant of poets," are noted for their emotional intensity...
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    as Antonius Castor. Antonius Julianus, a friend and contemporary of Aulus Gellius, and a teacher of grammar and oratory. Marcus Antonius Polemon, a celebrated...
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    Plutarch, "The Life of Camillus", 2. Valerius Maximus, ii. 7. § 6. Aulus Gellius, xvii. 21. Niebuhr, History of Rome, vol. ii., p. 452 ff. Diodorus Siculus...
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  • ancient Roman religion, Averruncus or Auruncus is a god of averting harm. Aulus Gellius says that he is one of the potentially malignant deities who must be...
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    generals of the Second and Third Samnite wars bore this name (Statius Gellius and Gellius Egnatius). Some of its members later moved to Rome, perhaps not long...
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    This work has possibly come down to us incomplete; the miscellanist Aulus Gellius refers, in his Noctes Atticae (12.2), to a 'book 22'. (54) Apocolocyntosis...
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    pontifical usage, found also in calendae (Calends) and calator. According to Aulus Gellius, these comitia were held in the presence of the college of pontiffs...
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  • originating in ancient Greece. The story is related by the Latin author Aulus Gellius in Attic Nights, who says that the famous sophist Protagoras took on...
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    that Julius Caesar also used more complicated systems, and one writer, Aulus Gellius, refers to a (now lost) treatise on his ciphers: "There is even a rather...
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    the Loeb Classical Library: Ammianus Marcellinus, Cornelius Nepos, Aulus Gellius, Quintus Curtius, Sallust, and Suetonius. Telegenius Hinsdale, B.A....
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  • I. 633 Aulus Gellius, Attic Nights, XVI. 16 Macrobius, Saturnalia, I. 7 Servius' commentary to Aeneid, VIII. 339 Varro, cited by Aulus Gellius in his...
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