GELLIUS, AULUS (c. A.D. 13o-I8o)

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GELLIUS, AULUS (c. A.D. 13o-I8o) , Latin author and grammarian, probably born at Rome. He studied grammar and rhetoric at Rome and philosophy at Athens, after which he returned to Rome, where he held a judicial office. His teachers and friends included many distinguished menSulpicius Apollinaris, Herodes Atticus and Fronto. His only

work

WORK

, the Noctes Atticae, takes its name from having been begun during the

long

LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

nights of a winter which he spent in Attica. He after-wards continued it at Rome. It is compiled out of an Adversaria, or commonplace book, in which he had jotted down everything of unusual

interest

INTEREST

that he heard in conversation or read in books, and it comprises notes on grammar, geometry, philosophy, history and almost every other branch of knowledge. The

work

WORK

, which is utterly devoid of sequence or arrangement, is divided into twenty books. All these have come down to us except the eighth, of which nothing remains but the index. The Noctes Atticae is valuable for the insight it affords into the nature of the society and pursuits of those times, and for the numerous excerpts it contains from the works of lost ancient authors.
Editio princeps (Rome, 1469) ; the best editions are those of Gronovius (1706) and M. Hertz (1883-1885; editio

minor

, 1886, revised by C. Hosius, 1903, with bibliography). There is a

translation

TRANSLATION

English

ENGLISH

by W. Beloe (1795), and in French by various hands (1896). See Sandys, Hist. Class. Schol. i. (1906), 210.
Berlin

Academy

ACADEMY, GREEK
ACADEMY, ROYAL

.
His best-known work is Pompeiana; the

Topography

TOPOGRAPHY
TOPOGRAPHY (Gr. Toros, place, -partied', to write)

, Edifices and Ornaments of Pompeii (18171832), in the first

part

PART

of which he was assisted by J. P. Gandy. It was followed in 1834 by the

Topography

TOPOGRAPHY
TOPOGRAPHY (Gr. Toros, place, -partied', to write)

of Rome and its Vicinity (new ed. by E. H. Banbury,. 1896). He wrote also Topography of Troy and its Vicinity (1804); Geography and Antiquities of Ithaca (1807); Itinerary of

Greece

GREECE

, with a Commentary on Pausanias and Strabo (181o, enlarged ed. 1827); Itinerary of the Morea (1816; republished as Narrative of a Journey in the Morea, 1823). All these works have been superseded by later publications.

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