Aulus GelliusCritiques

I typically love 'grab-bag' types of books and this is definitely one of those ... unfortunately (for me, anyway) the grabbings here are more often than not Latin-usage items. These are not uninteresting, but are of pretty limited interest if you don't know Latin and have no desire to learn it or learn anything about it.

One of the more interesting items that is NOT linguistic in nature is what is (apparently -- I checked Wikipedia) the first appearance of the story of "Androcles and the Lion" (though it's "Androclus" here). Overall this work reminds me a bit of Macrobius' "Saturnalia" where, again, the goings-on most often circle around weird Latin usages in Vergil, and so on. Not bad.

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Bought a sale copy of vol. II of the Noctes Atticae having noticed that OUP are now adding Gellius to their list of print-on-demand volumes. I refuse to buy such rubbish. I'm reading the work for pleasure: I demand a book that is a pleasure to read.