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

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[p. xxi]

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XV

On the kind of debate which the Greeks call ἄπορος 205

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XVI

How Plinius Secundus, although not without learning, failed to observe and detect the fallacy in an argument of the kind which the Greeks call ἀντίστρεφον 209

Book X

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I

Whether one ought to say tertium consul or tertio; and how Gnaeus Pompeius, when he would inscribe his honours on the theatre which he was about to dedicate, by Cicero's advice evaded the difficulty in the use of that word 213

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II

What Aristotle has recorded about the number of children born at one time 217

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III

A collection of famous passages from the speeches of Gaius Gracchus, Marcus Cicero and Marcus Cato, and a comparison of them 219

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IV

How Publius Nigidius with great cleverness showed that words are not arbitrary, but natural 229

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V

Whether avarus is a single word or, as it appears to Publius Nigidius, a compound, made up of two parts 231

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VI

That a fine was imposed by the plebeian aediles on the daughter of Appius Claudius, a woman of rank, because she spoke too arrogantly 231

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VII

Marcus Varro, I remember, writes that of the rivers which flow outside the limits of the Roman empire the Nile is first in size, the Danube second, and next the Rhone 233

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VIII

That among the ignominious punishments which are inflicted upon soldiers was the letting of blood; and what seems to be the reason for such a penalty 235

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IX

In what way, and in what form, the Roman army is commonly drawn up, and the names of the formations 235