Noctium atticarum libri undeviginti : In easdem encomium carmine Luscinii ad Huttenum …, Aulus Gellius
P. Goetz et J. Knoblochii, 1521
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Aulus Gellius Noctium atticarum libri undeviginti : In easdem encomium carmine Luscinii ad Huttenum Place : Argentinae (Strassburg) Editor: In aedibus Knoblochiis, impensis communibus P. Goetz et J. Knoblochii, mense martio Year: 1521 (23) 336 p (44), In-8°, modern binding His only known work, the Attic Nights (Latin: Noctes Atticae), takes its name from having been begun during the long nights of a winter which he spent in Attica. He afterwards continued it in Rome. It is compiled out of an Adversaria, or commonplace book, in which he had jotted down everything of unusual interest that he heard in conversation or read in books, and it comprises notes on grammar, geometry, philosophy, history and many other subjects