The Attic nights of Aulus Gellius
Subtitle: an intermediate reader and grammar review
By: P. L. Chambers.
Contributors: Gellius, Aulus.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Norman
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780806139937
Subjects: Latin language -- Readers
Genres: Readers.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Aulus Gellius; title: The Attic nights (excerpts from the Praefatio); title: How Pythagoras calculated the height of Hercules (bk. i, i); title: The difficult decision of Chilo the Lacedaemonian (excerpt from bk.i, iii); title: The taunting of Demosthenes of Athens and likewise of Hortensius of Rome (bk. i, v); title: The method and order of pythagorean training (excerpt from bk. i, ix); title: The sibylline books and King Tarquinius (bk. i, xix); title: Papirius praetextatus (bk. i, xxiii); title: Why Fabricius Luscinus campaigned for Cornelius Rufinus (bk. iv, viii); title: Androcles and the lion (bk. v, xiv); title: Hannibal's joke about the army of King Antiochus (bk. v, v); title: Julius Caesar and the filibuster of Marcus Cato (bk. iv, x); title: Memorable censorial reprimands (bk. iv, xii); title: Three examples of severe censorial reprimands (excerpt from bk. iv, xx); title: The strength and nature of the palm tree (bk. iii, vi); title: A saying of practical value (excerpt from bk. xvi, i); title: A fable of Aesop's worth remembering (excerpt from bk. ii, xxix); title: Compiled grammar charts.