Aulus Gellius, Attic Nights
John C. Rolfe, Ed.

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[p. 145]

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IV

THAT Herodotus, that most famous writer of history, was wrong in saying ¹ that the pine alone of all trees never puts forth new shoots from the same roots, after being cut down; and that he stated as an established fact ² about rainwater and snow a thing which had not been sufficiently investigated.

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V

ON the meaning of Virgil's expression caelum stare pulvere ³ and of Lucilius' pectus sentibus stare. ⁴

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VI

THAT when a reconciliation takes place after trifling offences, mutual complaints are useless; and Taurus' discourse on that subject, with a quotation from the treatise of Theophrastus; and what Marcus Cicero also thought about the love arising from friendship, added in his own words. ⁵

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VII

WHAT we have learned and know of the nature and character of memory from Aristotle's work entitled περὶ μνήμης or On Memory; and also some other examples, of which we have heard or read, about extraordinary powers of memory or its total loss. ⁶