Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by Aulus Gellius

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Last updated on November 26, 2024.

Aulus Gellius was a Roman author and grammarian, who was probably born and certainly brought up in Rome. He was educated in Athens, after which he returned to Rome. He is famous for his Attic Nights, a commonplace book, or compilation of notes on grammar, philosophy, history, antiquarianism, and other subjects, preserving fragments of the works of many authors who might otherwise be unknown today.

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Another one of the old poets, whose name has escaped my memory at present, called Truth the daughter of Time.

Aulus Gellius

Truth is the daughter of time.

Aulus Gellius

I see the beard and cloak, but I don't yet see a philosopher.

Aulus Gellius

I do not buy repentance at so heavy a cost as a thousand drachmae.

Aulus Gellius

A man should be religious, not superstitious.

Aulus Gellius

The spirits increase, vigor grows through a wound.

Aulus Gellius

Many things happen between the cup and the upper lip.

Aulus Gellius

I see the beard and cloak, but I don't yet see a philosopher. -Video barbam et pallium; philosophum nondum video

Aulus Gellius

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said Truth is the daughter of Time. [Lat., Alius quidam veterum poetarum cuius nomen mihi nunc memoriae non est veritatem temporis filiam esse dixit.]

Aulus Gellius

Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by Aulus Gellius

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