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Stories from Aulus Gellius Being Selections And Adaptations From The Noctes Atticae
Gellius, Aulus; Nall, G. Herbert (George Herbert), 1860- [Editor] · 3 chapters · 39,850 words
terms of familiarity with Herodes Atticus, Calvisius Taurus, Peregrinus Proteus, and other famous philosophers of that day: and after the lapse of many years to have returned to Rome, and devoted the remaining years of his life to literary pursuits and the society of a large c...
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terms of familiarity with Herodes Atticus, Calvisius Taurus, Peregrinus Proteus, and other famous philosophers of that day: and after the lapse of many years to have returned to Rome, and devoted the remaining years of his life to literary pursuits and the society of a large circle of friends. The dates of his birth and death are unknown, but from the names of his teachers and friends it is certain that he lived during the reigns of Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, and Marcus Aurelius, 117-180 A.D.
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3. iii. The gerundive is used (1) personally as a verb, usually with a iv. The acc. of the gerundive is used in a final sense as an oblique predicate, or complement, agreeing with the direct object of certain transitive verbs--_curo_, _do_, _suscip...
1. xxxiv. 1): to have continued his studies at Athens, where he lived on terms of familiarity with Herodes Atticus, Calvisius Taurus, Peregrinus Proteus, and other famous philosophers of that day: and after the lapse of many years to have returned to...
2. i. By its oblique cases the gerund (and the gerundive in the construction mentioned above--the ‘gerundival attraction’) completes the active infinite verb noun, which is only used in the nom. and acc., e.g. _haec ad iudicandum sunt facill...