LacusCurtius • Gellius — Noctes Atticae Short URL for this page: https://bit.ly/GelliusWPT mail: Bill Thayer Italiano Help Up Home Gellius: Noctes Atticae The Text on LacusCurtius and Elsewhere On October 5, 2006 David Camden's Forum Romanum, after a run of nearly 10 years providing a very useful index to Latin literature online, and many of the texts themselves, suddenly disappeared. One of the most useful texts that had been there and nowhere else, at least in full, was Aulus Gellius' Noctes Atticae. These pages on LacusCurtius are therefore in the nature of an emergency rescue: I retrieved them from Google's cache of the expired website, reformatted them to match my usual habits, inserted local links at the chapter and section numbers, and threw them back online; at which point, after a fair amount of work on my part which I'm not about to let go for naught, Forum Romanum happily reappeared online, and is still online today (2020). At some point then I'll go thru the text, convert the Greek (currently transliterated), conform it to the Loeb edition, add the occasional critical notes in that edition, apply a consistent format, etc. For now though, the sections marked below as not proofread are strictly "as is". A partial transcription of Gellius — whether from the same edition as this one or not, I haven't checked — may be found, unidentified as to source, here. Translation The English translation, on the other hand, was not online anywhere, and having been dragged into this particular author by a sort of accident, I'm taking advantage of it to input it here from scratch. It is the one by J. C. Rolfe, first published in 1927 in three volumes as part of the Loeb Classical Library, and revised in various years. Volumes I and II of my exemplar are in the public domain for sure; Volume III may not be; if not, I will use another edition, of course. (Details on copyright expiration here.) Proofreading As noted, the transcription will be minutely proofread. In the table of contents below, the Books that I have completely proofread are shown on blue backgrounds; any red backgrounds indicate that the proofreading is still incomplete. The header bar at the top of each webpage will remind you with the same color scheme. In either case of course, should you spot an error, please do report it. Latin original English translation Praefatio Preface Capitula Chapter Headings Liber I Book 1 Liber II Book 2 Liber III Book 3 Liber IV Book 4 Liber V Book 5 Liber VI Book 6 Liber VII Book 7 Liber VIII Book 8 Liber IX Book 9 Liber X Book 10 Liber XI Book 11 Liber XII Book 12 Liber XIII Book 13 Liber XIV Book 14 Liber XV Book 15 Liber XVI Book 16 Liber XVII Book 17 Liber XVIII Book 18 Liber XIX Book 19 Liber XX Book 20 Chapter and Section Numbering, Local Links Both chapters (large numbers) and sections (small numbers) mark local links, according to a consistent scheme; you can therefore link directly to any passage. Images with borders lead to more information. The thicker the border, the more information. (Details here.) UP TO: Classical Texts LacusCurtius Home A page or image on this site is in the public domain ONLY if its URL has a total of one *asterisk. If the URL has two **asterisks, the item is copyright someone else, and used by permission or fair use. If the URL has none the item is © Bill Thayer. See my copyright page for details and contact information. Site updated: 23 Sep 20