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Αἰλιανός · Aelian, Aelianus, Ailianos (αι 178) · Suda

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Near αι178

αι174evening meal, supper
αι175Aikolos, Aecolus
αι176the additions of herbs
αι177Ailia, Aelia
αι178Aelian, Aelianus, Ailianos
αι179Aelian, Aelianus, Ailianos
αι180ailinon, dirge, dirge-like
αι181mournful, plaintive
αι182ailinos-like

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Αἰλιανός

Aelian, Aelianus, Ailianos

Translated by Malcolm Heath11 Feb 2001Vetting: high12 revisions

biography
chronology
geography
imagery
religion
rhetoric

2 notes · 27 words

Translation

Of Praeneste↗ in Italy.¹ High-priest and sophist; surnamed Claudius. He was nicknamed 'honey-tongued' or 'honey-voiced'. He was a sophist in Rome itself in the period after Hadrian.²

Greek original · Adler’s text

Αἰλιανός, ἀπὸ Πραινεστοῦ τῆς Ἰταλίας, ἀρχιερεὺς καὶ σοφιστής, ὁ χρηματίσας Κλαύδιος· ὃς ἐπεκλήθη μελίγλωσσος ἢ μελίφθογγος· καὶ ἐσοφίστευσεν ἐν Ῥώμῃ αὐτῇ ἐπὶ τῶν μετὰ Ἀδριανὸν χρόνων.

Betacode

*ai)liano/s, a)po\ *prainestou= th=s *)itali/as, a)rxiereu\s kai\ sofisth/s, o( xrhmati/sas *klau/dios: o(\s e)peklh/qh meli/glwssos h)\ meli/fqoggos: kai\ e)sofi/steusen e)n *(rw/mh| au)th=| e)pi\ tw=n meta\ *)adriano\n xro/nwn.

Notes (2)

Claudius Aelianus (c. 170-235), Roman author and teacher of rhetoric at Rome, was born at Praeneste, offspring of freedmen, and flourished under the reign of Septimius Severus (192-211). He wrote in Greek and was admired for it; according to Philostratus, (Lives of the Sophists 624-5), “he wrote Attic as correctly as the Athenians in the interior of Attica” (trans. by Wright). Aelian’s major works are De natura animalium, a collection, in 17 books, of brief and curious stories of natural history, and Varia Historia, a miscellany of anecdotes, lists, maxims and descriptions, in 14 books. Aelian is quoted on no fewer than 247 occasions in the Suda; these quotations include references to two other works, *Peri\ *Pronoi/as and *Peri\ qei/wn e)nargei/wn. Also attributed to him is a collection of fictitious letters, the so-called Epistulae Rusticae, purportedly addressed to and by Attic farmers.
RE Aelianus (11); NP Ailianos (2); OCD4 Aelian; Philostratus, Lives of the Sophists 2.31.
1pi 2235 Prainestos. ↩
2117-138.

References

J.F. Kindstrand, 'Claudius Aelianus und sein Werk', ANRW II 34.4 (1998) 2954-96

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Neighbouring entries

αι176Αἱ λαχάνων προσθῆκαιthe additions of herbs αι177ΑἰλίαAilia, Aelia αι178ΑἰλιανόςAelian, Aelianus, Ailianos αι179ΑἰλιανόςAelian, Aelianus, Ailianos αι180Αἴλινονailinon, dirge, dirge-like

Revision history12 revisions · last 19 Mar 2015

19 Mar 2015fixed note number — Catharine Roth
19 Mar 2015another note — David Whitehead
18 Mar 2015cosmeticules — Catharine Roth
30 Jul 2014updated a ref — David Whitehead
6 Jul 2014cosmetics — Catharine Roth
26 Aug 2013cosmetics — Catharine Roth
14 May 2012tweaked tr; more keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
18 Apr 2011imported Ioannis Doukas' biographical note from mu 1154 — Catharine Roth
10 Apr 2002added note and keyword — David Whitehead
5 Apr 2002 — Catharine Roth
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11 Feb 2001Translated — Malcolm Heath

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Αἰλιανός (Adler number alphaiota 178), trans. Malcolm Heath, 11 Feb 2001. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/alphaiota/178

Translation by Malcolm Heath for Suda On Line, revised by Catharine Roth, David Whitehead, , licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Shown unchanged, under the same licence, non-commercially. Original on SOL ↗