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

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[p. xliii] even to disobey, in the hope that it would be more advantageous to the giver of the order; and an exposition of varying views on that subject . . 65

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XIV

What was said and done by Gaius Fabricius, a man of great renown and great deeds, but of simple establishment and little money, when the Samnites offered him a great amount of gold, in the belief that he was a poor man . . . . . 71

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XV

What a tiresome and utterly hateful fault is vain and empty loquacity, and how often it has been censured in deservedly strong language by the greatest Greek and Latin writers . . . . . . 73

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XVI

That those words of Quadrigarius in the third book of his Annals, “there a thousand of men is killed,” are not used arbitrarily or by a poetic figure, but in accordance with a definite and approved rule of the science of grammar . . . 81

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XVII

The patience with which Socrates endured his wife's shrewish disposition; and in that connection what Marcus Varro says in one of his satires about the duty of a husband . . . . . . . . . 85

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XVIII

How Marcus Varro, in the fourteenth book of his Antiquities of Man, criticizes his master Lucius Aelius for a false etymology; and how Varro in his tum, in the same book, gives a false origin for fur . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

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XIX

The story of king Tarquin the Proud and the Sibylline Books . . . . . . . . . 89

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XX

On what the geometers call ἐπίπεδος, στερεός, κύβος and γραμμή, with the Latin equivalents for all those terms . . . . . . . . . . . 91

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XXI

The positive assertion of Julius Hyginus that he had read a manuscript of Virgil from the poet's own household, in which there was written et ora tristia tenptantum sensus torquebit amaror, and not the usual reading, sensu torquebit amaro 95