Aulus Gellius, a Roman grammarian, who flourished about the middle of the 2d century A. D., supposed to have been born in Rome. He studied rhetorio there, and philosophy at Athens. He was still a youth when he commenced, during the long winter evenings spent at a country house near Athens, a compilation of extracts from Greek and Roman authors, concerning languages, antiquity, philosophy, history, and literature, interspersed with original remarks. He continued it at Rome, where he held a judicial office. His work, named from its origin Noctes Atticae ("Attic Nights"), and divided into 20 hooks (of which the 8th is lost), though without any attempt at order or arrangement, contains a mass of materials, valuable mostly as remnants of lost ancient authors. The editio princeps was published at Rome (1469); the best of the older editions at Ley-den (1706), by Gronovius, reprinted at Leipsic (1762). The best of all is that of Hertz (Leipsic, 1853). An English translation was published by Bedloe (London, 1795).