The Attic nights of Aulus Gellius an intermediate reader and grammar review
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Norman :
University of Oklahoma Press
2009
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Aulus Gellius
- The Attic nights (excerpts from the Praefatio)
- How Pythagoras calculated the height of Hercules (bk. i, i)
- The difficult decision of Chilo the Lacedaemonian (excerpt from bk.i, iii)
- The taunting of Demosthenes of Athens and likewise of Hortensius of Rome (bk. i, v)
- The method and order of pythagorean training (excerpt from bk. i, ix)
- The sibylline books and King Tarquinius (bk. i, xix)
- Papirius praetextatus (bk. i, xxiii)
- Why Fabricius Luscinus campaigned for Cornelius Rufinus (bk. iv, viii)
- Androcles and the lion (bk. v, xiv)
- Hannibal's joke about the army of King Antiochus (bk. v, v)
- Julius Caesar and the filibuster of Marcus Cato (bk. iv, x)
- Memorable censorial reprimands (bk. iv, xii)
- Three examples of severe censorial reprimands (excerpt from bk. iv, xx)
- The strength and nature of the palm tree (bk. iii, vi)
- A saying of practical value (excerpt from bk. xvi, i)
- A fable of Aesop's worth remembering (excerpt from bk. ii, xxix)
- Compiled grammar charts.
