Attic Nights
Aulus Gellius
cited 8 times by 4 works in the library · not held
The library does not hold this work. Four of its books reach for it anyway — that is what puts it on the corpus's wanted list.
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Institutes of Roman Law Gaius 1 neutral 1 endorsed 3 citations
Gellius's work is the explicit source cited for the Twelve Tables' execution provisions.
These proceedings are known to us by the statements of Aulus Gellius, who has given us the very terms of the Twelve Tables, 20, 1.
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The Rights of War and Peace Hugo Grotius 3 citations
Cited to distinguish the gladiator's forced necessity from the ordinary moral rule against preemptive injury.
” On this subject there is a remarkable passage in Aulus Gellius, “When a Gladiator prepares to enter the lists for combat, such is his lot that he must either kill his adversary, or be killed himself.
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On Fate Cicero, Marcus Tullius 1 neutral 1 citation
The fragment is explicitly attributed with a citation to 'Gellius, Attic Nights 7.2.15.'
’ (Gellius, Attic Nights 7.
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On the Commonwealth Cicero, Marcus Tullius 1 neutral 1 citation · 2 passages
Paragraphs are explicitly headed '[Gellius, Attic Nights, ...]', citing Aulus Gellius's work as the preserving source.
[Gellius, Attic Nights, 12.
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