The Loeb Classical Library: Attic Nights, Volume II : Books 6–13

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The Loeb Classical Library: Attic Nights, Volume II : Books 6–13Aulus Gellius (ca. AD 123170) 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

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