The Roman miscellanist Aulus Gellius was the author of the Noctes Atticae (ca. a.d. 180"), a collection of mainly brief expositions, based on notes or excerpts he had made in the course of reading about particular topics in a variety of fields such as...

123?-170 Roman writer and lawyer who spent a year in Athens compiling information for the composition of Noctes Atticae (Attic nights), a compendium on ancient culture and knowledge. It is comprised of 20 books, of which all but part of one survive,...

Aulus Gellius (ca. 125 - after 180), Latin author and grammarian, possibly of African origin, probably born and certainly brought up at Rome. He studied grammar and rhetoric at Rome and philosophy at Athens, after which he returned to Rome, where he...