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          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.

          Comparatively little is known about Aulus Gellius, the author of the Noces Atticae, and our sources of information are almost entirely his own writings.

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        3. The Attic Nights of Aulus Gellius, translated by John Carew Rolfe (),(Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. ).
        4. The only information about him is from Attic Nights.

          5. He was educated in Athens, after which he returned to Rome. 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