Series: Loeb Classical Library

Translated by: J.C. Rolfe

Harvard University Press

Red Cover

Left side in Latin, right side in English

Volume 2, Books 6-13

Spine marked No. 200

Gellius, Aulus (c. 123-170), a Latin writer, educated by renowned men in grammar and rhetoric at Rome and by Herodes Attics in philosophy at Athens, later held some judicial post at Rome.  He is known from his surviving twenty books of Noctes Atticae, 'Attic Nights'.  He jotted ideas things seen or heard covering philosophy, history, biography, all sorts of antiquities, points of law, literary criticism and especially lexicographic matters, explanations of old words and questions of grammar.  Includes excerpts from other authors whose works are lost.