only source for the life of Aulus Gellius is the details recorded in his writings. Internal evidence points to Gellius having been born between AD 125 and...
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Gellius Maximus was the son of Lucius Gellius Maximus, who had served as a doctor to Emperor Caracalla's doctor. For his services, Lucius Gellius Maximus...
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Mediterranean Sea of pirates. Gellius was given charge of the Italian coast off Tuscany. Although Pompey soon headed to the East, Gellius retained command of the...
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Gellius Egnatius (died 295 BC) was the leader of the Varriani, a leading clan of the Samnites during the Third Samnite War, which broke out in 298 BC...
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36 BC. Gellius fought for Mark Antony against Octavian at the Battle of Actium in 31 BC, after which he disappears from history. Lucius Gellius is apparently...
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Samnite War. He was defeated and taken prisoner in 305 BC, at the Battle of Bovianum. Gellia gens Gellius Egnatius Aulus Gellius Livy, ix. 44. 13. v t e...
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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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Holford-Strevens, "Towards a Chronology of Aulus Gellius", Latomus, 36 (1977), pp. 93–109 Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae, [2] Adkins and Adkins, Dictionary...
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Haliclona rava (redirect from Haliclona (Gellius) rava)
Haliclona (Gellius) rava is a species of demosponge in the family Chalinidae. It is found off the coast of Ireland. "Gellius ravus Stephens, 1912". WoRMS...
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counterpart is Vulturnus, according to Pliny the Elder; but for Aulus Gellius Volturnus was the equivalent of the southeast wind Euronotus. In the Latin...
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Haliclona (Gellius) Gray, 1867 Haliclona (Gellius) amboinensis (Lévi, 1961) Haliclona (Gellius) anatarius (Lévi & Lévi, 1983) Haliclona (Gellius) angulata...
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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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Cornelius Gellius (1927). "12". Noctes Atticae (Attic Nights). Vol. X. Translated by J. C. Rolfe. Loeb Classical Library. Beer, Beate (2020). Aulus Gellius und...
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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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Skuld Ovid, Fasti, I. 633; Aulus Gellius, Attic Nights, XVI. 16; Macrobius, Saturnalia, I. 7 Varro, cited by Aulus Gellius in his Attic Nights, XVI. 16 Myth...
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Classical compass winds (section Aulus Gellius)
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: p...
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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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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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the command of Lucius Gellius and Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Clodianus. Initially, the consular armies were successful. Gellius engaged a group of about...
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controlled the metaphorical thread of life. The Attic Nights of Aulus Gellius; Translated into English by the Rev. W. Beloe, F.S.R., Translator of Herodotus...
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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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and Publius Decius Mus devastate the lands of Samnium. The Samnite noble Gellius Egnatius leads an army into Umbria and makes an alliance with the majority...
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Sextus Pompeius Festus Rufus Festus Florus Frontinus Fronto Fulgentius Gellius Horace Hydatius Hyginus Jerome Jordanes Julius Paulus Justin Juvenal Lactantius...
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Neofibularia nolitangere (redirect from Gellius massa)
1882 Fibulia massa (Carter, 1882) Fibulia nolitangere (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) Gellius massa (Carter, 1882) Neofibularia oxeata Hartman, 1967...
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sources are Gaius, Institutes 4.30 and Aulus Gellius 16.10.8. Roman law List of Roman laws "Aulus Gellius, Attic Nights, Book XVI, X". www.perseus.tufts...
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Poetry of Catullus (section Gellius)
poems comes with 91, in which Catullus rails at Gellius for being an unfaithful friend. He had hoped Gellius would be faithful, at a time when Catullus was...
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Sextus Pompeius Festus Rufus Festus Florus Frontinus Fronto Fulgentius Gellius Horace Hydatius Hyginus Jerome Jordanes Julius Paulus Justin Juvenal Lactantius...
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Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 5 August 2024. Attic Nights, Book 9 by Aulus Gellius (English translation) Ovidi Nasonis Epistvlae Heroidvm, XIII. Laodamia...
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consulship was Lucius Gellius Poplicola, in 72 BC, but the most famous member of this gens is probably the grammarian Aulus Gellius, who flourished during...
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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 a...
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