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

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[p. xv] me which, though of general and common use by those who speak Latin, are by no means Latin and are not to be found in the early literature 143

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In what terms and how severely the philosopher Peregrinus in my hearing rebuked a young Roman of equestrian rank, who stood before him inattentive and constantly yawning 143

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That Herodotus, that most famous writer of history, was wrong in saying 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 about rainwater and snow a thing which had not been sufficiently investigated 145

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On the meaning of Virgil's expression caelum stare pulvere and of Lucilius' pectus sentibus stare 145

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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 145

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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 145

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VIII

My experience in trying to interpret and, as it were, to reproduce in Latin certain passages of Plato 147

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How Theophrastus, the most eloquent philosopher of his entire generation, when on the point of making a brief speech to the people of Athens, was overcome by bashfulness and kept silence; and how Demosthenes had a similar experience when speaking before king Philip 147