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

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[p. 147]

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VIII

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

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IX

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.

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X

A DISCUSSION that I had in the town of Eleusis with a conceited grammarian who, although ignorant of the tenses of verbs and the exercises of schoolboys, ostentatiously proposed abstruse questions of a hazy and formidable character, to impress the minds of the unlearned.

Would wish a lying scoundrel. ¹

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XI

THE witty reply of Socrates to his wife Xanthippe, when she asked that they might spend more money for their dinners during the Dionysiac festival.

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XII

ON the meaning of plerique omnes, or “almost all,” in the early literature; and on the probable Greek origin of that expression.