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Aulus Gellius
Overview
2nd century Roman author and grammarian
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For, omitting for brevity's sake other proofs which I might adduce in support of this opinion, I will state but one which I consider conclusive. Aulus Gellius, a man of extensive erudition, and gifted with an eloquent and graceful style, relates, in his work entitled _Noctes Atticæ_,[333] that he once made a voyage with an eminent Stoic philosopher; and he goes on to relate fully and with gusto what I shall barely…
of Hippo Augustine, The City of God, Volume I
States what Aulus Gellius is; the author is tied to Aulus Gellius in the knowledge graph.
334. Chrysippus had already made an observation to this effect, not only in his fourth book on Providence, as given by Aulus Gellius (lib. 6, c. 1) where he asserts that evil serves to bring the good to notice (a reason which is not sufficient here), but still better when he applies the comparison of a stage play, in his second book on Nature (as Plutarch quotes it himself). There he says that there are sometimes…
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil
Opens on Aulus Gellius; names Aulus Gellius.
He had an uncommon freedom of address, a large fund of humour, great facility in the invention of his sentiments, and a ready and easy manner of expressing them. He was likewise, for the time he lived in, a great adept in the literature of the Greeks; and, in the heat of a debate, he could sting, and gash, as well as ridicule his opponents. Almost cotemporary with these was L. Gellius, who was not so much to be…
Marcus Tullius Cicero, Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators
Close in meaning to Aulus Gellius; the term itself is not named.
Philosophers who discussed Aulus Gellius
- Epictetus
- Panaetius
- Marcus Aurelius
- Xenophanes
- Protagoras
- Philolaus
- Archytas
- Speusippus
- Seneca the Younger
- Favorinus
- Aristoxenus
- Critolaus
- Nigidius Figulus
- Peregrinus Proteus
- Xenophilus (philosopher)
- Eubulides
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- Augustine of Hippo
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- Favorinus
- Marcus Cornelius Fronto
- Peregrinus Proteus
Place in the tradition
Part of Academic skepticism.