Stories from Aulus Gellius: Being Selections and Adaptations from the Noctes Atticae; Edited with Notes, Exercises and Vocabularies for the Use of Lower Forms (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Gellius, Aulus

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ISBN 10 : 1333909306 ISBN 13 : 9781333909307

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

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Is LIFE AND STUDIES 1. Sources.-0f the life of A ulus Gellius but little is known; and that little is to be obtained only by a careful study of his one work, the Noctes A tticae. He is not named by any of his contemporaries-nor, indeed, by any author earlier than the historian Flavius Vopiscus, who wrote in the opening years of the fourth century of our era. He is mentioned several times by the grammarian Servius Honoratus, who, toward the close of the same century, wrote an elaborate commentary on Vergil. In the fourteenth chapter of the ninth book of his De Oivitate Dei (published between 413 and 426), St. Augustine speaks of Gellius as vir elegantissimi eloquii (style) et multcw et facundae scientiae. Priscianus Caesariensis, a grammarian of the fifth century, expressly cites him more than once. None of these references, however, conveys any information concerning our authorâs life. Hence we are reduced to piecing together, as best we can, the isolated passages in which he speaks, himself, of his life and work. These passages are, in general, of the nature of incidental reminiscences, rather than of intentional transmission of personal information. 2. Birth: Time and Place.-O fthe place of his birth, nothing whatever is known.
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• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1333909306
• ISBN 13: 9781333909307
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 65
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