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* Leofranc Holford-Strevens, Aulus Gellius.
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* Bonnie Blackburn, Leofranc Holford-Strevens, " Calendars and chronology ", The Oxford companion to the year ( Oxford, 1999 ), 659-937.
* Bonnie Blackburn, Leofranc Holford-Strevens, The Oxford companion to the year ( Oxford, 2003, a corrected reprinting of the 1999 original edition ).
* Bonnie Blackburn, Leofranc Holford-Strevens, The Oxford companion to the year ( Oxford, 1999 ), 769-71.
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Aulus and Gellius
Alexis was known in Roman times ; Aulus Gellius noted that Alexis ' poetry was used by Roman comedians, including Turpilius and possibly Plautus.
The first “ Classic ” writer was Aulus Gellius, a 2nd-century Roman writer who, in the miscellany Noctes Atticae ( 19, 8, 15 ), refers to a writer as a Classicus scriptor, non proletarius (“ A distinguished, not a commonplace writer ”).
Here Oscan, Greek, and Latin languages were in contact with one another ; according to Aulus Gellius 17. 17. 1, Ennius referred to this heritage by saying he had " three hearts " ( Quintus Ennius tria corda habere sese dicebat, quod loqui Graece et Osce et Latine sciret ).
Aulus Gellius mentions how the discussion of such paradoxes was considered ( for him ) after-dinner entertainment at the Saturnalia, but Seneca, on the other hand, considered them a waste of time: " Not to know them does no harm, and mastering them does no good.
Important works from the 100s include the Attic Nights of Aulus Gellius, a collection of anecdotes and reports of literary discussions among his friends ; and the letters of the orator Marcus Cornelius Fronto to Marcus Aurelius.
On these two sources depend other ancient authorities, such as Ovid, Servius, Aulus Gellius, Macrobius, patristic texts, Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Plutarch.
There is evidence that Julius Caesar used more complicated systems as well, and one writer, Aulus Gellius, refers to a ( now lost ) treatise on his ciphers:
So too could the first major English author to write in this style, William Painter, who borrowed from, amongst others, Herodotus, Plutarch, Aulus Gellius, Claudius Aelianus, Livy, Tacitus, Giovanni Battista Giraldi, and Bandello himself.
Unlike with Aristotle, we have no complete works by the Megarians or the early Stoics, and have to rely mostly on accounts ( sometimes hostile ) by later sources, including prominently Diogenes Laertius, Sextus Empiricus, Galen, Aulus Gellius, Alexander of Aphrodisias and Cicero.
* Anderson, G. " Aulus Gellius: A Miscellanist and His World ," in Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt.
* Lakmann, Marie-Luise, Der Platoniker Tauros in der Darstellung des Aulus Gellius ( Leiden, Brill, 1994 ) ( Philosophia Antiqua, 63 ).
Aulus and .
This betrothal was broken off in 48 when Agrippina, scheming with the consul Lucius Vitellius the Elder, the father of the future Emperor Aulus Vitellius, falsely accused Silanus of incest with his sister Junia Calvina.
* 43 BC – Battle of Mutina: Mark Antony is again defeated in battle by Aulus Hirtius, who is killed.
In 43, Claudius sent Aulus Plautius with four legions to Britain ( Britannia ) after an appeal from an ousted tribal ally.
The use of celery seed in pills for relieving pain was described by Aulus Cornelius Celsus around 30 AD.
The Roman force, led by Aulus Plautius, then halted as Plautius sent for Claudius to come and finish the campaign.
Hadrian appointed Aulus Platorius Nepos as governor to undertake this work who brought the VIth Victrix legion with him from Lower Germany.
The next year, he was summoned by Aulus Gabinius, proconsul of Syria, to take part in the campaigns against Aristobulus II in Judea, as the commander of a Gallic cavalry regiment.
Encouraged by Cicero, the Senate denounced Antony and in January 43 they granted Octavian imperium ( commanding power ), which made his command of troops legal and sent him to relieve the siege, along with Aulus Hirtius and Gaius Vibius Pansa Caetronianus, the consuls for 43 BC.
Otho's advanced guard successfully defended Placentia against Aulus Caecina Alienus, and compelled that general to fall back on Cremona.
" The name " Paracelsus " was a pseudonym signifying him the equal or better of Aulus Cornelius Celsus, whose text, which described the use of opium or a similar preparation, had recently been translated and reintroduced to medieval Europe.
Suetonius also recorded that when Vitellius was born his horoscope so horrified his parents that his father tried to prevent Aulus from becoming a consul.
He married firstly before the year 40 a woman named Petronia, daughter of Publius or Gaius Petronius Pontius Nigrinus, by whom he had a son Aulus Vitellius Petronianus, the universal heir of his mother and grandfather.
In 43, Vespasian and the II Augusta participated in the Roman invasion of Britain, and he distinguished himself under the overall command of Aulus Plautius.
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